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

[Greg Ward]

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.

        Greg
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