On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:06 AM, Kelsey Forsythe wrote:

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.

My experience was similar to Paul's: dead easy. My steps were
slightly different; and I had been running the new Xserve with some
test lists before copying the files over. These are my notes for the
final switchover:

on old lists
	mailmanctl stop

on old list server, copy files to personal workstation:
	sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh /home/mailman/lists  

user@workstation:Desktop/lists/ --progress sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh /home/mailman/data
user@workstation:Desktop/lists/ --progress sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh /home/mailman/archives
user@workstation:Desktop/lists/ --progress

shutdown old lists hardware

on new lists:
	--copy from personal workstation to staging area
	sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh user@workstation:Desktop/lists/lists / 

var/mailman/new --progress sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh user@workstation:Desktop/lists/data / var/mailman/new --progress sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh user@workstation:Desktop/lists/ archives /var/mailman/new --progress

	--fix staging area
	cd /var/mailman/new
	rm -r lists/mailman
	rm data/adm.pw data/aliases data/aliases.db data/master-qrunner.pid  

data/sitelist.cfg sudo chown -R mailman:mailman /var/mailman/new

	--fix symbolic links in public directory
	cd /var/mailman/new/archives/public
	sudo ~/bin/fixlinks *

	--move from staging area to live
	sudo scp -pr /var/mailman/lists /var/mailman/data /var/mailman/ 

archives /Users/cole/mailmanvar sudo mv /var/mailman/new/lists/* /var/mailman/lists sudo mv /var/mailman/new/data/* /var/mailman/data sudo mv /var/mailman/new/archives/* /var/mailman/archives

	--add alias lines to /var/mailman/data/aliases
	--note that I had kept a list of lists in FileMaker, along with the  

necessary aliases for each --this is what I copied cd sudo scp -p user@workstation:Desktop/lists/list_aliases . sudo vi /var/mailman/data/aliases :r list_aliases :wq sudo /usr/sbin/postalias /var/mailman/data/aliases

	--update data files
	sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/update
	sudo bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url -- -v

	--add IP address (change from test-ip to live-ip)
	sudo changeip - test-ip live-ip
	sudo networksetup -setmanual "Built-in Ethernet 1" live-ip netmask  

gateway sudo networksetup -getinfo "Built-in Ethernet 1"

	stop and start postfix from server admin?

The fixlinks script referenced above, because after the copy the
public alias links didn't work, as they were pointing to the wrong
directory:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$privatebase = "/var/mailman/archives/private"; while ($item = shift) { $reallink = "$privatebase/$item"; print "Changing $item to $reallink\n"; unlink($item); symlink($reallink, $item); }

Jerry jerry@sandiego.edu http://home.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ Maher 190/x8773

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