[Mailman-Users] Backing Up / Restoring / Recovery Questions

[Jeffrey M. Kenton]

Hey everyone.

I have Mailman 2.0.6 running, and things are going well with it. The 
server that I originally put Mailman on is underpowered to do the 
other things it is also doing, so I want to move mailman to another 
server. Now, to prevent having to reinvent the wheel for the 30+ 
lists I now administer, I have several questions (standing caveats: I 
have read the documentation and tried running some of the scripts in 
the bin directory, I just want to know if I am overlooking something 
obvious):

1. Is there a way to backup the list information, including addresses 
and list configurations?

2. Is there a way to restore the configuration (list members, list 
setups etc.)?

If it is as easy as tar'ing the /home/mailman directory and 
extracting it onto another machine, that is the easiest. However, it 
seems that since I had to compile some code, that solution seems to 
not be the best one in this case.

Perhaps I have missed the Mailman Admin Guide somewhere?

Take care.

Jeff
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