Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman after a crash?

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Avery
Mark Sapiro wrote: > > If you have the entire mailman tree, that's it. Just restore it and > start Mailman. > > Thanks for the pointers! We're back on line and my users have stopped whinging. Best wishes, Mike -- Mailman-Users mailing lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman after a crash?

2007-11-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
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

[Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman after a crash?

2007-11-17 Thread Mike Avery
Until last week, I was pretty lucky with Mailman. I installed it, and it did its thing. Beautifully. Last week my FreeBSD system had a disk crash. The drive only makes sickening clicking sounds and SpinRite can't touch it. Luckily, I'd been doing weekly backups, so I didn't lose more than a