On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:25:48PM -0400, Christopher VanOosterhout wrote:
>
> After some review of the list archives I do not find an answer to what I
> think will be a pretty simple question.
>
> How do I make backups of my lists? What files are critical?
>
> I want to back up the email addresses that are no the list as well as
> configuration information related to a specific list.
I use this:
chef:/var/local/mailman/bin/scripts# cat listlists
#!/bin/bash
cd ~mailman/lists/
for i in *
do
echo "Subscribers of list $i"
echo
"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
~mailman/bin/list_members $i | sort
echo
echo
echo
done
chef:/var/local/mailman/bin/scripts# cat dumplistconfigs
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "$0 destdir"
exit
fi
chown mailman $1
cd ~mailman/lists/
for i in *
do
echo "Dumping list $i in $1/$i"
~mailman/bin/config_list -o $1/$i $i
done
chef:/var/local/mailman/bin/scripts# cat savelistinfo
#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
~mailman/bin/scripts/listlists > ~mailman/backup/listusers.$DATE
ln -snf ~mailman/backup/listusers.$DATE ~mailman/backup/listusers.current
mkdir ~mailman/backup/dump.$DATE
ln -snf ~mailman/backup/dump.$DATE ~mailman/backup/dump.current
~mailman/bin/scripts/dumplistconfigs ~mailman/backup/dump.$DATE >/dev/null
It should be close enough to what you want to do.
Note that it doesn't save the subscribers' passwords or list config options
(I wrote the above before dumpdb existed)
Oo answer your question BTW, most of the list configs are stored in
~mailman/lsits/listname/config.db
Marc
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