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On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 07:08 -0500, Grant M. wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
> > John Abreau wrote:
> >> ...Jerry tells me he was freeing up some disk space, and a
> >> typo wiped out most of mailman.
> > Do you need a volunteer to setup rsync or a server to rsync the lists to?
> 
> I think that would be a good idea. Or even just a DVD backup every 3
> months. I can't imagine that the list could possibly take up all that
> much space.
> Grant M.

I set up a cron job to do this on Sunday, based on the cron job I had 
been running for years to back up the BLU calendar database. The 
backup of Mailman, including subscriber lists and archive mbox files, 
currently takes up 2.8 GB. The calendar backup takes up 684 KB. 


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