[clue-admin] Remote backups using rsync over ssh

[Jeff Cann]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Hi Folks.
>
> I have successfully run a remote backup of some directories on the CLUE
> server using rsync over ssh. The process is partially documented on the
> CLUE project wiki.
>
> Directories I am doing:
>   /var/www
>   /var/cvs
>   /etc
>   /var/lib/mailman/archives/private
>   

Jed,

FYI - All you need to restore mailman is two sets of files, one set for 
each list:

/var/lib/mailman/lists/*/config.pck      <==== list config data, 
including subscriber list, one for each list
var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*.mbox  <===== email file for each list

The archive html pages can be easily regenerated from the .mbox

I tested this restore on during this server rebuild and it worked 
great.  You can change the backup script to exclude everything else if 
you want to save on bandwidth.

It actually cut down my time to recreate everything to 30 minutes.  Used 
to take 2-3 hours [because I was redoing too many things out of ignorance].

Jeff