Mike Avery wrote: > >Luckily, I'd been doing weekly backups, so I didn't lose more than a day >or two of messages. I backed up by running tar on the entire mailman >directory structure. And it's all there! > >But, now comes the fun part, how do I recreate the mailing lists, the >archives, and so on? Is there a FAQ entry? If so, I haven't seen it.
If you have the entire mailman tree, that's it. Just restore it and start Mailman. The lists are all in Mailman's lists/ directory and the archives are all in Mailman's archives/private/ directory. There are also symlinks in archives/public/ for lists with public archives. The caveat here is make sure the backup/restore process restores symlinks and not files to archives/public/. If you wind up with files there, it's best to just remove them and let Mailman recreate the symlinks which it will do if you just access the list (say in the web admin interface). The thread at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-January/055208.html> linked from <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.004.htp> is one of many discussions of what files have to be moved to move lists/archives from one installation to another and is thus applicable to restoring files. There ar also a couple of FAQ articles on backing up lists <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?query=backup+my&querytype=simple&casefold=yes&req=search> -- 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