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Lurchington
Jan 2, 2003

Forums Dragoon

skipdogg posted:

It's fairly common for some folks to have a small amount of backup block storage. I bought 25 gigs and have yet to use any of it. I'm still using highwinds/easynews since I still have over 300GB in my 'gigbank' with them but the few corrupt things I've ran into blocknews hasn't been able to help with. Had to find a different set of articles which usually isn't hard to do.

I'm using usenetserver on highwinds, and about 60% of the things I've downloaded in the last week are corrupt. despite having a backup blocknews account. I'm starting to become concerned that I have something setup wrong, but over the summer everything worked fine.

Lurchington fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Sep 25, 2011

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Lurchington
Jan 2, 2003

Forums Dragoon

ambushsabre posted:

Can someone explain how to get a backup server working? I set it all up, tested the connection, and ticked the backup button, and yet all of my retry / repairs still fail with the same amount of blocks missing. Unless XS usenet is also a giganews reseller?

I was having a huge problem with them last week, and after I finally got around to upgrading to SABnzbd 0.6 which featured some sort of better/new repair option and it started working a lot better with my backups. If you're stuck on an old version it's something to try I guess :)

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