Congrats on the instructions for installation on ubuntu, what about migration?
So I went ahead and tried to install mailman3 on ubuntu 24.04 using the virtual environment approach. It worked like a charm. There were a very few glitches, all from me not reading the instructions closely (e.g. not replacing MY_SERVER with my server name, Doh). The whole thing, from start to finish was about two hours.
I appreciate all y'alls efforts in this.
The reason I'm doing this is that I'm having to migrate from a server that's going to be defunct soon. I've been running a mailman3 mailing list on that for a few years.
Is there a tutorial/instructions on migrating data from an old system to a new one? It's actually not the end of the world if I don't get all the old emails transferred, but I'd like to get the email addresses of the participants moved over easily... I believe that I set it up in 2020, but did not do any version upgrades since then...
Thanks!
billo
On 10/8/24 5:45 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
Is there a tutorial/instructions on migrating data from an old system to a new one? It's actually not the end of the world if I don't get all the old emails transferred, but I'd like to get the email addresses of the participants moved over easily... I believe that I set it up in 2020, but did not do any version upgrades since then...
There's no explicit doc, but there are some posts in the archives of this list, e.g. <https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/message/...>.
The easiest scenario is if you want to migrate everything. You just dump the database on the old server and load it on the new one using the database manager's tools.
If you only want to move some, but not all lists, it's more complicated, but possibly the easiest thing is to migrate everything and then delete the unwanted lists and their archives from Postorius and HyperKitty.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 10/9/24 22:18, Mark Sapiro wrote:
The easiest scenario is if you want to migrate everything. You just dump the database on the old server and load it on the new one using the database manager's tools.
Thank you Mark,
this is exactly my task to be in the near future.
Loading the old database will overwrite the current version's newer settings: Don't I have to run something like 'mailman3 migrate' to update the database, or is this taken care of automatically by using the alembic version when I just restart mailman3?
Best regards, Peter
Thanks. I'll think on that. My tables have a different prefix, so I'll have to remember where to change those config files...
billo
On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 13:18 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 10/8/24 5:45 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
Is there a tutorial/instructions on migrating data from an old system to a new one? It's actually not the end of the world if I don't get all the old emails transferred, but I'd like to get the email addresses of the participants moved over easily... I believe that I set it up in 2020, but did not do any version upgrades since then...
There's no explicit doc, but there are some posts in the archives of this list, e.g. < https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/me ssage/FTIC47FPQER5FLR4IW4CGI7JB6ALKIX4/>.
The easiest scenario is if you want to migrate everything. You just dump the database on the old server and load it on the new one using the database manager's tools.
If you only want to move some, but not all lists, it's more complicated, but possibly the easiest thing is to migrate everything and then delete the unwanted lists and their archives from Postorius and HyperKitty.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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