IEM - network operating center (IOhannes m zmoelnig) wrote: > >however, this leaves me with one remaining problem: >rebuilding the archives will rename several tenthousands of emails. >while our archives do have a search functionality, this will still break >links to most archived emails.
This is a known issue with rebuilding old archives. You may find that fixing the .mbox solves this because you will no longer be assigning message numbers to spurious partial messages, but probably this won't completely solve the problem. >how would i rebuild only the last month of an archive? This is only a suggestion to try. I haven't actually tried it. 0) backup everything 1) remove all the archives/private/LISTNAME/* files and directories for the last month 2) remove all the archives/private/LISTNAME/database/* files for the last month. 3) consider removing the archives/private/LISTNAME/attachments/* directories for the last month, but don't do it if you are concerned about attachments scrubbed from the plain digest as you will break those links. 4) using bin/withlist, unpickle the the archives/private/LISTNAME/pipermail.pck data, and update 'archive', 'archivedate', 'archives', 'firstdate', 'lastdate', 'sequence' and 'size' to make it look like the last message in the archive is the last message for the prior month, and pickle it back. 5) copy the last months messages from archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox to a separate file. 6) run bin/arch without the --wipe option and with the separate last month's .mbox as input. >and: is there a way to rebuld an archive in a "sandbox"; that is: can i >somehow specify the destination directory of the archive-building >process? (so i can rebuild the entire archive till it fits my needs and >only then swap it with the current one) This is probably more practical. Just create another Mailman instance with a different prefix and copy the lists/ and archives/private/ directories to this second instance. You could probably also do it by putting PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = '/some/path' in mm_cfg.py in your current installation, but this is risky. It probably won't affect the running qrunners as long as they don't restart for any reason, but it will affect any web or command line accesses so you wouldn't want to do it unless you stopped web access to Mailman. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
