Brad Knowles wrote:
But what do you do afterwards? Do you re-stitch the mbox files together so that you can re-create the archives in the future if there is a catastrophic failure, or do you leave the mbox files permanently separated? If you do leave them permanently separated, where do you leave them and how do you make sure that the right thing happens to the right ones, as new messages are processed?
What I did with several lists for which I imported archives from prior versions of the list is this. The current mbox for the Mailman list is <list>.mbox/<list>.mbox. In addition there are older, imported archives in files in the same <list>.mbox/ directory named <list>.mbox/<list>-topica.mbox and <list>.mbox/<list>-yahoo.mbox. Then there are instructions in a Wiki detailing the archive rebuilding process and processing order.
With any luck, whoever has to rebuild the archive will refer to the Wiki.
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