I seemed to finally get a decent backup for mailman going.
It's not super slick or anything but seems to work pretty decently, but you can never be too sure or ask enough questions when it comes to stuff like this....so any feed back would be appreciated.
We are running two linux debian servers, one in City1 and the other in City2. Each night I copy over any CHANGED files in the /var/lib/mailman directory. I do NOT copy /usr/lib/mailman.
This works fairly well it seems. We did a test and moved our mailman website to the other server (the website has been made redundant in city2) and everything seemed to line up just fine.
I wasn't able to send test messages to all the lists (we can have this!). So my tests are conclusive. But all the unprocessed messages came over with it and were released from the queue on the redundant server.
Does anyone see problems with this method backing up mailman? We'll be doing a full systems test in the spring and I need to know my mailman server isn't going to break this way and if it does, what I'll need to do to make it work once we switch to the other server.
Thanks in advance,
Aaron ~