Yes, to do this you simply need to set up your server to suck the old items from the remote system.
This does require some additional configuration in addition to a normal sucking feed as you will be sucking older items that would normally be skipped, and possibly storing a greater number of articles than would normally be stored on a site just displaying news from the past few days.
In dnews.conf -
nntp_feeder old.server.com * [username password] update_at *5 * suck_maxold 1000000 too_old 9999 max_items 1000000 suck_batchn 1000 suck_requeue true suck_stream true
The above assumes up to 1,000,000 items per group. If this is too much, you can lower this figure.
Then,
tellnews getgroups (This adds the groups from the upstream server - monitor progress with 'tellnews status').
tellnews cached * 100 (This caches ALL groups, causing them to be downloaded when you update - change * if you don't want all groups)
tellnews update
Wait patiently, you should see articles appearing in the groups. Not all articles per group will be obtained immediately, it will switch after 1,001 items (suck_batchn), but will bring them all up to date before stopping (suck_requeue). Progress can be monitored using 'tellnews status'.
- Roydon L.
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Hello,
We have installed a new DNews news server on our Windows 2003 server.
Since long, we had our news groups managed by a 3rd party vendor with a Linux machine that does NOT use DNews.
How can I import all messages fro the old news server to our new DNews server?
