[Mailman-Developers] Official way to "move" lists?

Ron Jarrell jarrell@vt.edu
Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:28:52 -0500


At 02:40 PM 11/1/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm moving my stuff to a newer/faster machine in a few days; is there
>a better "approved and recommended" way to transfer entire lists, configs,
>and archives over to the new machine other than just tarballing up the
>entire Mailman directory and FTPing it over?  E.g., can I reinstall Python
>and MailMan on the new machine, and only move certain directories?

If your paths are going to be the same, you can just tarball up and move
the lists and archives directories (assuming you don't care about the
old logs).