Spencer Yost wrote: >About half of my archives were deleted by an over-zealous and under-smart >system administrator. Fortunately I have a backup (so this is why you do >backups! ) that is only missing a few days of the archives. > >The deletion, and backup, took place before I did an upgrade from 2.14 to >2.15 this weekend. My question: How do I stitch together the old 2.1.4 >backups with the current set of archives that is 2.1.5. I also know there >is some issues with combining archives in general I would like to see some >discussion on. >
The real question is do you have the $prefix/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file and is it complete or can you make it complete using your backups. If so, all you need do is $prefix/bin/arch --wipe listname You can combine several archive .mbox files in two ways. Either combine the .mbox files into one and do as above or do cd $prefix bin/mailmanctl stop <-- only if preserving numbering is an issue bin/arch --wipe listname path/to/first/file.mbox bin/arch listname path/to/second/file.mbox ... bin/arch listname <-- current (default) .mbox is last bin/mailmanctl start <-- only if stopped above When you combine archives in this way, there may be a numbering issue in that messages in the new archive are numbered in the order they are read/processed from the .mbox files. If you have saved links to archive messages and message numbering changes, the saved links will fail or will retrieve the wromg message. If you have the complete listname.mbox file and just rebuild the archive from that, numbering is not an issue. You may also find some of the info in http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp to be of interest. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
