[Mailman-Users] Help moving archives.

[Chris Snyder]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Luis F. Lacayo wrote:

>I need someone advice.
>
>I lost a hard drive which had all of my lists.  I have a tar backup, can I
>just overlay what I had before on to the mailman directory?
>
>Thanks
>

I should work.

Assuming:

1) All your ownerships and perms are the same as the tar ball.

2) your /etc/aliases is correct for all the lists you have in the tarball

I've done tarballs and exploded them over exsisting directories and that
works ok.

Chris.

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