[Mailman-Users] Upgrading from 1.1 to 2.1.x

[Thomas Hillson]

Raf,

My suggestion would be do not upgrade from 1.1 to 2.1.1. This is what 
I did on my old system when I moved it up.

1. export all of your lists to text files. listname.txt. copy them to 
a safe place.
2. warn everyone the system is going down for a while while you upgrade.
3. tar the old directory and save it in a save place.
4. install Mailman 2.1.1 on the new server, and be sure you follow 
instructions in INSTALL file. Check the INSTALL.MTA file for special 
instructions for your MTA.
5. follow all the instruction in the INSTALL file to configure the new setup.
6. make sure the new install is working correctly.
7. recreate your lists with the same names and import all your users 
from the text files.
8. test to make sure everything is working and announce to your users 
that the server is back up.

Good luck,
--Tom
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At 10:26 PM -0400 4/8/03, Rafael Hinojosa wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I've scoured the archives and checked the web.  I think I have an inkling
>as to how this is done, but I figured I would ask the list to see if there
>is anything specifc you all recommend.
>
>The situation is that I have a server that is running mailman 1.1,
>configured to work with postfix.  Besides some of its quirks, mailman
>works great as far as we're concerned.
>
>We would like to migrate the data to another server that would be running
>the more recent version of mailman, 2.1.1.
>
>I've tried just copying the data files, but that doesn't seem to work.
>
>>From some of the archives, I gathered that I may need to update my current
>install from 1.1 to 2.0.x and then try to migrate the data over to the new
>server.  Both systems are running debian, so I believe that upgrading from
>1.1 to 2.0.x should be too much of a problem.
>
>I'm wondering if anyone has attempted this, or if anyone can offer any
>suggestions as to how to make this work.
>
>TIA,
>
>--Raf
>

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