Paul Tomblin wrote: >Does the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox directory have to >contain just one file, or can I break it up by year or something to make >them more managable?
It can contain as many files as you want organized however you want, but the one named listname.mbox is the only one accessable via the web, and it is the one that new posts are added to. >I had my mailman lists on my home server, but a few years ago I moved them >to a virtual private server. Because the disk space was limited there, I >started trimming down the listname.mbox files down to just the previous >two years worth. But now I've moved them again, this time to a colo box >where I have more disk space than I know what to do with. I want to >restore the old archives. Can I just dump the old mbox file in the same >directory as the current archives and do a "arch listname"? Or will I >have to run "arch" once for the old file and once for the listname.mbox >file? You will need to run bin/arch --wipe listname archives/private/listname.mbox/old.mbox followed by bin/arch listname (which uses listname.mbox/listname.mbox by default). You could actually do it in the other order, but the --wipe option needs to be on the first command, or if the existing archives match the existing listname.mbox, you could just do bin/arch listname archives/private/listname.mbox/old.mbox to add the old ones. Note that there are pros and cons to all the above having to do with changing message numbers - hence, changing message URLs - in the archive which will invalidate saved URLs now or in the future. See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.033.htp> and <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp> for more on this. >Will "arch" handle the case where there is a bit of overlap between two >files (the files from my home system go from 1999 to mid-2005, and the >ones on my VPS go from the beginning of 2005 to the present)? Actually, I think it will (i.e. I think it doesn't archive the same Message-ID: twice), but this may exacerbate any message renumbering issue. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp