> We are in the process of migrating our University news server
>
> From DNEWS 5.4J7 on an old Compaq server running NT4 Server
> To DNEWS 5.5C6 on a new Compaq server running Windows 2000 Advanced server
>
> I have done the following so far:
>
> Installed DNEWS on the new server
>
> Copied all conf files to new server and done an imported an active.add
file to import the newsgroups list.
>
> The sending of mail and receiving is fine from news clients who add this
news server as a new "account"; however, existing news clients who refer to
the older version (and have subscribed lists, cached messages, etc on their
news client) are unable to read the messages on the new server by simply
pointing to the IP address of the new server.
>
> They are not getting any new threads and trying to view the bodies of
cached errors gives this error: "message is unavailable" in Outlook Express
and in Netscape Newsgroup reader:
>
> Newsgroup server responded: no such article number in this group
> Perhaps the article has expired
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (10234)
>
> This problem I am having I am guessing is caused by mismatched article and
group id's between the two servers.
Hi,
This problem results from the article numbering no-longer matching the
numbering on the old server.
> What is the best process for my migration to have the least impact to the
users who accessing the news server?
>
> I have thought of:
>
> 1. Copying the C:\DNEWS and everything under it to the new box and
upgrading this box.
This should be safe as the OS and system changes are only minimal (assuming
you are running the x86 version of NT4).
1) Stop DNews on both servers.
2) Copy the entire dnews directory to the new system, plus dnews.conf in
your WINNT directory, and ensure all paths specified in dnews.conf are
correct for the new system.
3) Upgrade (or install) DNews (this will not replace the configuration
files)
4) Start DNews, and test...
If you run in to any serious problems, you may need to use
tellnews check_buckets
tellnews rebuild_index
but this is unlikely given the changes are only minor.
See this page for additional details -
http://www.netwinsite.com/dnews/faq3.htm#10
- Roydon L.
