[GoLUG] Web host discussion, 7/5/2023

[Rick Moen]

Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.org> wrote:

> On another subject, GoLUG's mailing list died, so we made a new,
> opt-in mailing list.

It's truly tragic whenever a longstanding public mailing list not only
dies, but also loses years of history, for no better reason than nobody
ever having bothered to do basic backups of primary data.

So:

Was /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/tech.mbox/tech.mbox periodically
copied off-system as archival storage, from the old mailing list host?
Given any archival copy of that file, _all_ prior mailing list traffic 
can be easily re-generated at the new host, and merged into the new
host's pipermail archive.

If it wasn't, why wasn't this Backup 101 step taken?