I have noticed that especially the var/messages directory has a rather considerable size compared to the rest. What exactly is this for and what would be the consequences if that was lost?
And more generally, would not backing up var/ at all only result in the loss of some short term data (e.g. messages that are held or currently processed) or would long term data also be lost? Or in other words, what exactly would be non-recoverable if that isn't backed up?
On 5/22/19 5:21 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 5/22/19 6:31 AM, Alain Kohli wrote:
Hi
What exactly are we supposed to include in our mailman backups? Obviously the database, but are there any other files that should be included to make sure we can properly restore?
I would backup all of Mailman's var/ directory. Additionally, I would backup the directory where Haystack's backend search engine stores its indices. For the default Whoosh backend with default settings this is the fulltext_index/ directory in the same directory as your Django settings.py file.