Unfotunately this is a NNTP design.  You can try to create a pull feed, but
I believe the limit for pulling old messages is two weeks.  The easiest
thing to do is to copy your old store to your new box and rebuilt its index.

Unfortunately I can be more specific in my steps as it has been at least two
years since I mucked with a NNTP server and my brain fails me.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul (NCC/CS)" <pts@bom.gov.au>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:04 PM
Subject: internet news feed backlog.


>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if someone can help me on this problem
> I've been working on for about a week or two.
>
> I have set up a new news server as I need to shift the old
> one from a linux box to my netbsd one.  It works ok.
> And I set up a feed from the old box in the hope that all
> the old messages on the old box would be fed to the new
> one. But It only feeds to the new box "fresh" articles
> posted to the old box.
>
> My problem is simply that I need to get the existing
> articles on the old box onto the new one, but I can't
> figure out how to do it so we can make the new one
> go live/production.
>
> Surely there is some way to import all the old news?
>
> Any help appreciated,
> thanks,
>
> Paul.
>
>
>
>
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> Paul       (pts@bom.gov.au)
> National Climate Centre
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