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  • From: Redmond Militante <address@concealed>
  • To: Serge Aumont <address@concealed>
  • Cc: Redmond Militante <address@concealed>, address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] list subscribers lost during migration
  • Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 15:42:07 -0500

Hello-

+++ Serge Aumont <address@concealed> [06/05/18 15:39]:
> Redmond Militante wrote:
>
> >After moving our mailing lists from one sympa server to another, I noticed
> >that although the lists, their archives, and their configs were migrated
> >successfully, the subscribers lists for the mailing lists were not
> >transferred during the migration. Thus, we have a list which on the
> >original server had five subscribers - on the new servers it has zero
> >subscribers, and people have to be subscribed to the list again on the new
> >server.
> >
> >Is this a symptom of the migration? or did i miss a step in the migration
> >process? I used the 'moving to a different server' in the 'upgrading
> >sympa' section of the documentation as reference.
> >
> >
> Did you migrate the database content ? Subscription are store in teh
> database to when you move sympa to another server you have to move tha
> database content.
>

Yes. I basically moved /var/lib/mysql/sympa from one server to another.
The two servers have different hostnames, though - which resulted in some
conflict related to previously existing web archives and aliases.

> Serge Aumont

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Redmond Militante / NSIT / The University of Chicago
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