[SAC] Mailman migration, backups

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Oct 17 01:46:33 EDT 2011


On 11-10-16 10:16 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Frank Warmerdam<warmerdam at pobox.com>  wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'm making progress on the mailman migration.  I have almost
>> completed a test migration to the VM.  It seems rebulding the
>> HTML archive pages from the master .mbox file is pretty slow!
>
> Frank,
>
> it would be pretty cool to avoid rebulding the HTML archives since
> all links to existing emails found in past messages and the various
> trac instances etc will become invalid (usually the mailman archive
> URLs to messages end up shifted).

Markus,

It is not immediately clear to me that the archives would be
renumbered when regenerated but it is possible.

> Isn't a transfer of the HTML archives with rsync enough?

/me sighs.

I can't even complete a "du" command over the html archives.  I am not sure
rsync would ever finish.  I suppose I could try it.

Best regards,
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