[Mailman-Users] Converting 2.0 to 2.1

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "KR" == Kyle Rhorer <rhorer at swbell.net> writes:

    KR> This might be a good opportunity to remind folks that prudent
    KR> system administration practice dictates one make not only
    KR> frequent, scheduled backups, but also a one-off backup before
    KR> upgrading software.  I'm sure we all know that already, but
    KR> it's easy to become complacent.

Good reminder Kyle.

BTW, for those of you upgrading a list at a time, what I do first is
create a tarball in 2.0.13 before moving the directories over to 2.1.
E.g.

% cd /usr/local/mailman20
% tar zcvf SAFETIES/mylist.tgz lists/mylist archives/private/mylist{.mbox,}

-Barry