[Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archive process running?

[TGPlatt, WebMaster]

Follow-up to last message. Wasn't sure exactly how to examine the contents
of the ourlist.mbox file in /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ourlist.mbox

SO, I opened it with emacs just to see what it contained. The last message
in that file is one I posted on July 7th.

The prospects of recovering all those missing messages are looking dimmer
and dimmer... Sigh! :-(

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:51 PM
To: webwitchcraft at webwitchcraft.com; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the
archiveprocess running?

TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:
>
>I seem to be missing two full months worth of archives. From what I can
tell
>looking at my backups, it appears that the last time the archive process
>actually ran on our old server was in early August. 
>
> 
>
>Then for some reason it stopped funning and thee have been no archive
>updates since then. I suspect those "lost messages" aren't really lost at
>all but are merely caught in some sort of internal blockage in mailman.
What
>I'm trying to figure out here is how to clear the clogged drain pipe and
get
>the archive working again. 


There are a few possibilities:

1) ArchiveRunner died on the old server in early August. In this case,
the messages would be on the old server in the qfiles/arch/ directory.
If that is the case, you could just move the contents of that
directory to the corresponding directory on the new server and that
should do it.

2) Some error was shunting the archived messages in which case they may
be in qfiles/shunt/ and they may or may not be in the individual
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox files. If the messages
are in qfiles/shunt/, you could just move them and rin bin/unshunt,
but you need to be careful as not all the files in qfiles/shunt/ may
be messages you want. You can look at these entries with
bin/show_qfiles or bin/dumpdb.

If the messages are in the listname.mbox files, the easiest thing is
probably to rebuild the archives with bin/arch --wipe.


>When I first installed the backup from the old server to the new one and
>then checked the list's configuration parameters, I saw some parameters on
>the Archiving options page that provided for "rebuilding" the archive. But
>now those options seem to have disappeared now too.


I don't know what you say, but there's nothing in the web Archiving
Options page about rebuilding archives.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan