[svlug] Reminder: SVLUG mailing list server failure risk, gap in backups

[Rick Moen]

JC Lawrence wrote:

> If you'll accept an SSH key, I'll setup an rsnapshot cronjob to backup
> whatever you want.

Would be appreciated, and it's almost entirely just the mbox files,
which are the truly irreplaceable stuff (along with the rosters, that
Don and I get weekly).  Please do send offlist.  However, please see note
about 'wget -c' alternative, below.

I notice I bollixed directory paths in a couple of the rsync lines, and
neglected to include the archive of one of the formerly active working
mailing lists, one called 'speakers'.  Revised rsync commands (the ones I
just ran) are:

rsync -avz --rsh=ssh rick at lists.svlug.org:/var/local/mailman/archives/private/svlug.mbox/svlug.mbox .
rsync -avz --rsh=ssh rick at lists.svlug.org:/var/local/mailman/archives/private/volunteers.mbox/volunteers.mbox .
rsync -avz --rsh=ssh rick at lists.svlug.org:/var/local/mailman/archives/private/svlug-announce.mbox/svlug-announce.mbox .
rsync -avz --rsh=ssh rick at lists.svlug.org:/var/local/mailman/archives/private/web-team.mbox/web-team.mbox .
rsync -avz --rsh=ssh rick at lists.svlug.org:/var/local/mailman/archives/private/jobs.mbox/jobs.mbox .
rsync -avz --rsh=ssh rick at lists.svlug.org:/var/local/mailman/archives/private/smaug.mbox/smaug.mbox .
rsync -avz --rsh=ssh rick at lists.svlug.org:/var/local/mailman/archives/private/speakers.mbox/speakers.mbox .

The largest file is, of course, the svlug.mbox file for this mailing list.  Current file sizes:

$ ls -lh *.mbox
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 rick  staff   5.0M 20 Dec 01:14 jobs.mbox
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 rick  staff    15M 25 Oct  2013 officers.mbox
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 rick  staff    12M 12 Oct  2012 smaug.mbox
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 rick  staff   2.4M 25 Sep  2006 speakers.mbox
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 rick  staff   1.4M  2 Dec 11:26 svlug-announce.mbox
-rw-r--r--+ 1 rick  staff   192M 30 Dec 10:34 svlug.mbox
-rw-r--r--+ 1 rick  staff    28M  8 Dec 12:14 volunteers.mbox
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 rick  staff   4.8M  9 Mar  2014 web-team.mbox
$

That's 261MB, in total.  Actually, though, for most folks with less
sucky bandwidth than I, might be easier to script HTTP using 'wget -c',
thereby getting most advantages of rsync, no credentials required.

I should have remembered 'wget -c' earlier, but was a bit distracted.

wget -c http://lists.svlug.org/archives/svlug.mbox/svlug.mbox 
wget -c http://lists.svlug.org/archives/volunteers.mbox/volunteers.mbox
wget -c http://lists.svlug.org/archives/svlug-announce.mbox/svlug-announce.mbox
wget -c http://lists.svlug.org/archives/web-team.mbox/web-team.mbox
wget -c http://lists.svlug.org/archives/jobs.mbox/jobs.mbox 
wget -c http://lists.svlug.org/archives/smaug.mbox/smaug.mbox
wget -c http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers.mbox/speakers.mbox