Jan. 3, 2007
1:52 p.m.
Quoting Kelsey Forsythe (forsythe@chem.iupui.edu):
I've recently moved to a new server. It is an Xserve G5 running
10.4.3 OSX. I'd like to migrate the mailman lists from the old server (Xserve G4).Does anyone have experience migrating lists? If so, please let me know what procedure you followed.
If you have command line access to both servers, it's dead easy. I've done it twice. Here is the procedure I followed. Note that your file paths may differ because OS X does strange things:
- Copied all of /var/lib/mailman/lists/ from the old server to the new one.
- Fixed the permissions with "chown -R list.list /var/lib/mailman/lists/"
- Fixed the urls for the new one with "withlist -l -r fix_url [listname]" for each list. (Only necessary if the new server has a different domain name than the old one - one time I was moving from xcski.com to list.xcski.com and the other time I was keeping the same list.xcski.com url.)
- Copied all /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*mbox/*mbox to the new server.
- Fixed the permissions with "chown -R list.list /var/lib/mailman/archives/private"
- Regenerated the archives using "/var/lib/mailman/bin/arch [listname]" for each list. Note that if your archives are big, this process can consume all the memory in your system and then some, so you may have to split the mbox files up and regenerate the list archives in peices or use the "--start" and "--end" options to arch.
-- Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@xcski.com> http://blog.xcski.com/ We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.