Grant Taylor wrote: > >I have a backup (via BackupPC) of all Mailman files going back 30 days >and I'd like to know what is the proper procedure to restore an >individual mailing list.
The easiest way is just to copy the most recent good backup of lists/LISTNAME/config.pck to the corresponding file on the server. This will have some minor side effects such as resetting the issue number of the digest and undoing any list configuration settings you may have made in the mean time, but this is easy. The alternative is to do something like bin/dumpdb on the backup config.pck and extract the members from that or install it as lists/temp_list/config.pck and then run bin/list_members -f -r temp_list \ |bin/sync_members -w=yes -d=no -a=no real_list bin/list_members -f -d temp_list \ |bin/sync_members -w=yes -d=yes -a=no real_list but this will lose user option settings, digest type and passwords (which is why you need to send welcome messages). The former method is much cleaner as far as the users are concerned. It would be possible to write a withlist script to retrieve only the membership information from the backup config.pck and update the list with it, but I'm not aware of any existing script. -- 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
