I should have a fairly complete archive in my brlug folder on my imap server. Complete since around september last year. I think I have all the way back to when I started, but I'll check.
Shannon Dustin Puryear wrote: >I screwed up. I was working on filtering the mailbox for the site so that I >could properly redirect different mailing lists to the archives (if users >begin using the biz list again) and I deleted the site's mail spool file! > >To make matters worse, I had a backup but accidently deleted that too. Don't >ask.. > >This is a problem because I can't let hypermail update the archives without >the original spool file. If I do the current archive will be lost and we will >restart from the first message in the new spool file. That means we will lose >over a year's worth of mail. > >Geez.. > >Now, I have three options here. First, I can just go ahead and start the >archiver again, and the archive will reset to the last few messages plus new >messages. The second option is to restore the achive from someone on the list >that has the good sense to not delete any messages since they joined. The >final option is to have the hosting company pull the file from tape backup for >$40. > >What is everyone's thoughts? Anyone have the list archived? Any packrats >here? > >Hmm, I guess I could write a tool to pull the messages back out of the >archive, but I don't look forward to writing that. > >Regards, Dustin > > >--- >Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear >In the beginning the Universe was created. >This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > >================================================ >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change >your subscription information. >================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
