Full backup and restore of a mailman list
I run a small hosting service with a number of mailman lists. I need to move all the lists to a new server - list config, subscribers, subscriber options, archives, the whole ball of wax for each list.
What's be best way to do this? I tried using config_list (-o on the source end and -i on the receiving end) and list_members with various options but this leaves individual members' options behind.
I note that each list has a file called config.pck associated with it in the mutable data tree, and copying this from one server to the corresponding location on the other _seems_ to copy pretty much everything except the list archives. Is this an acceptable way to do such a move? What about moving list archives? How is this best done?
I've googled around on the mailman site and elsewhere but can't seem to find a definitive HOWTO on moving lists. I'm sure there must be one somewhere. If anyone knows of such documentation, please point me to it.
-- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) |
At 6:50 PM -0600 2006-01-31, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
I've googled around on the mailman site and elsewhere but can't seem to find a definitive HOWTO on moving lists. I'm sure there must be one somewhere.
Did you search the Mailman FAQ Wizard at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py>?
-- Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755LOPSA member since December 2005. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>.
Lindsay Haisley wrote:
This has been discussed many times on this list. See for example the entire thread at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-October/047233.html> which involves an upgrade from 2.0 to 2.1 as well.
Basically you're on the right track - move config.pck files and the archives/ directory. If any domain/host names are changing see FAQ 4.29, and as Brad suggests, there's other info in the FAQ too.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Thus spake Mark Sapiro on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:25:58PM CST
Yep! So I see. I'm sure it's a common problem.
If I'd dug a little deeper I would probably have found the docs you reference. Thanks so much to both of you!!!
I'll check it out, but all should be well. I'm just re-vectoring DNS for each list and its associated website from the old server to the new.
Again, many thanks for your quick responses! The references you cite have everything I need to do the job. Mailman versions are the same, so there's no file format conversion involved.
-- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) |
At 6:50 PM -0600 2006-01-31, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
I've googled around on the mailman site and elsewhere but can't seem to find a definitive HOWTO on moving lists. I'm sure there must be one somewhere.
Did you search the Mailman FAQ Wizard at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py>?
-- Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755LOPSA member since December 2005. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>.
Lindsay Haisley wrote:
This has been discussed many times on this list. See for example the entire thread at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-October/047233.html> which involves an upgrade from 2.0 to 2.1 as well.
Basically you're on the right track - move config.pck files and the archives/ directory. If any domain/host names are changing see FAQ 4.29, and as Brad suggests, there's other info in the FAQ too.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Thus spake Mark Sapiro on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:25:58PM CST
Yep! So I see. I'm sure it's a common problem.
If I'd dug a little deeper I would probably have found the docs you reference. Thanks so much to both of you!!!
I'll check it out, but all should be well. I'm just re-vectoring DNS for each list and its associated website from the old server to the new.
Again, many thanks for your quick responses! The references you cite have everything I need to do the job. Mailman versions are the same, so there's no file format conversion involved.
-- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) |
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