[Mailman-Users] Backup script...

[Mark T. Valites]

I posted this once before for backing up archives, dbs, and keeping all 
user info, but it had one small bug.  The files in archives/private/* 
had the wrong permissions set.  A small change took care of that.  Also, 
the $person_to_nag_with_700_emails variable doesn't matter if you use 
the --output argument to bin/newlist.  If you are moving to a new 
machine name, you will also want to set things with config_list - I 
cannot stress how powerful a tool this can be!

I think this will work for what you want, but of course this didn't fix 
my mailman woes :(

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On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 10:28 AM, Phydeaux wrote:

> At 07:34 PM 11/26/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>> At 21:49 -0500 11/26/2001, Phydeaux wrote:
>>> Using bin/list_lists I can get a list of the lists. I can then easily 
>>> cycle
>>> through each list and (for each one) do the following:
>>>
>>> - Run bin/config_list
>>> - Run bin/list_members (once for digested, once for regular members)
>>> - Copy the complete archive or at least the mbox file of the archive.
>>>
>>> I can then tar the whole mess up and copy it to tape, etc. for a
>>> portable backup of my mailman installation.
>>>
>>> I have several questions. First, am I forgetting to copy anything?
>>> Will the above approach get me all the data I need to restore the
>>> system?
>>
>> I don't think the above has captured various user flags other than 
>> digest
>> vs regular.
>>
>> I believe a restore will not restore subscriber choices like not-me-to,
>> no-mail, hidden, and some others.
>
> True... so what is the best way to back things up? I'm loathe to just 
> back up
> the db files, as they can easily be modified while a tar is taking 
> place. Is that
> what everyone else is doing? Is there any facility for dumping user 
> config
> info? I must be missing something...
>
> reb
>
>
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