[Mailman-Users] Moving archives to a new list?

[Johnny Stork]

Sorry Mark, the problem was between the monitor and the chair.....ME!! I 
was not running arch from the mailman bin folder so was running the 
other arch command in /bin. My mistake, all works fine now and archives 
moved.


Thanks for your help

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Johnny Stork wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks for getting back to me. Unfortunately this didnt work completely 
>> since all the html, attachements etc were not included.
>>     
>
>
> That probably means that for the old list's Non-digest options ->
> scrub_nondigest was set to Yes, so attachments, HTML, etc. were
> removed before the message was archived.
>
> If this is the case, you could do the following:
>
>
>   
>> 1: Copied archives/private/OLDLIST.mbox/OLDLIST.mbox to 
>> archives/private/NEWLIST.mbox/NEWLIST.mbox
>>     
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Then run "bin/arch --wipe NEWLIST"
>
> The problem now is you have to keep the
> archives/private/OLDLIST/attachments directory because that's where
> the links in the messages to scrubbed attachments point.
>
> Either that or you could first edit
> archives/private/NEWLIST.mbox/NEWLIST.mbox before running bin/arch and
> change all the OLDLIST URLs to NEWLIST and then after running
> bin/arch, move archives/private/OLDLIST/attachments to
> archives/private/NEWLIST/attachments.
>
>
>   
>> 2: Copied everything in archives/private/OLDLIST.ca to archives/N EWLIST.ca
>>
>> 3: Edited archives/private/NEWLIST.ca/pipermail.pck so the basedir is 
>> now archives/private/NEWLIST.ca
>>     
>
>
> On the other hand, I have no idea what archives/private/OLDLIST.ca
> might be.  In standard Mailman there are only two directories per list
> in archives/private, and they are archives/private/LISTNAME and
> archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox, so You may be dealing with something
> about which I know nothing.
>
>
>   
>> I could then go to the archives page and see all the old messages just 
>> fine, but a couple problems persist
>>
>>
>> 1: If I send a message to the NEWLIST, it is processed fine, but the 
>> archive html pages does not show the new postings?
>>
>> 2: All previous postings in the archives to OLDLIST, where there are 
>> attachements, still point to the OLDLIST location
>>
>>
>> Is there any way to at least fix #1? that you know of
>>     
>
>
> #1 could be permissions or anything. Is there anything in Mailman's
> error log for these posts?
>
> See above for #2.
>
>   

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