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

[Dan Mick]

Greg Ward wrote:
> 
> On 26 October 2001, Jeffrey M. Kenton said:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, it's that easy.  Strictly speaking, all you *really* need to tar
> and copy is ~mailman/archives and ~mailman/lists; everything else can be
> reconstructed by reinstalling on the new host.  (Reinstalling will be
> necessary for a different platform, or if the mail UID/GIDs are
> different.  It would be a good idea if you're running an old Mailman on
> the old server, or if you want to change Mailman's location.  Otherwise,
> it's probably not necessary.)
> 
> Everything about foo-list *except* for its archive is in
> ~mailman/lists/foo-list; the archive is in one of
> ~mailman/archives/{public,private}/foo-list.

except for outstanding subscriptions and held messages, which live in
data/.