Thank you mark for your reply. I gather that I need shell access for all of this.
I am not sure if I will be able to get it. Is there no other way to do this???? Maish -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:11 PM To: Maish Saidel-Keesing; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about restoring a mailman list or two Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: >Someone approached me and asked if I can help them restore two lists >that they have. > >The mailman package was installed through CPanel (I know I am going to >get a lot of answers to go to cpanel for support but I will ask it >anyway) > >In the tar package that was backed up on cpanel I have some of the >files that I think will be able to help me > >I just don't know how to put them back into the lists. > >What I have is the following: > >A directory called "mm" and within that directory are two more >directories for each of the lists For examples sakes we will call them >A & B In each of those directories I have 4 files > >Config.pck >Config.pck.lst >Pending.pck >Request.pck > >In the config.pck file I see (with a lot of garbage - when I opened it >up in >notepad) the email addresses and names of the subscribers to the list >(at least I think so). > >To restore it I was thinking of extracting the emails and then >recreating the list and mass subscribing them again. >Is there a simpler way to do it?? Yes. Assume $prefix is the path to the current Mailman installation. Just restore the "A" and "B" directories with their files to the directory $prefix/lists/ If the backups were created under the same mailman version, that should be it, but see $prefix/bin/check_perms --help and $prefix/bin/update --help in case you might need them. >Second thing is the archives... > >I have a folder called "mma" from the cpanel backup that has the >archives saved nicely in html format. How am I supposed to retrieve >that back into the list current archives? The archives for a list go into the $prefix/archives/private/list-name/ directory. If the archives are public there is also a symlink from $prefix/archives/public/list-name to $prefix/archives/private/list-name There is a global .mbox file in $prefix/archives/private/list-name.mbox/list-name.mbox If you have that, you can rebuild the archive without the other stuff. See: $prefix/bin/arch --help -- 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/
