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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 1/30/20 12:59 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So this is one of those stupid questions, I expect, but I'm trying to 
> recover a list server from partial backups. I have
> the list configs from /var/lib/sympa/list_data which gives list names, and 
> they're all at the same domain. However, I
> don't have a database dump.
> 
> Is there a way I can recreate the list_table from this data? That'll at 
> least let me regenerate aliases, and the list
> owners can do a password reset to gain access to their lists. For most of 
> them they'll know who should be subscribed.
> 
> I reckon I could script something from the config files to generate SQL to 
> do this, but I am wondering if there's a
> better way.
> 

Hello Dave,

it seems possible to me to recreate the lists, but it will lack the 
subscribers and even the list owners on newer
Sympa versions.

Regards
           Racke

> Cheers,
> Dave
> 


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