Topic: Restoring ezmlm lists

[asjunk]

I've got what is probably an incredibly stupid question.

My SME 6.01-1 box died yesterday.  I had to move everything to a new box.  After installing 6.01-1, I attempted to restore the backup I had made last week via the backup to workstation function.  Unfortunately, as many others have reported, it failed to restore the backup (browser timeouts; tried several different browsers without luck).

I reinstalled most or all of the RPMs, including the EZMLM RPMs, which I had installed before the crash (not 100% sure I got them all, but I'm pretty close).  Recreated my users, groups, ibays, and domains.  I then went into the tar file from my last backup and extracted all the ibays from the tar file and copied them over to the ibays; after resetting the properties on the ibays in the server-manager, all the ibays appear to be working fine.

EZMLM is not working, however.  I copied the lists directory from /home/e-smith/files/ezmlm in the tarball into the corresponding directory on the new server. However, EZMLM doesn't recognize that the lists are there.  I've tried rebooting, to no avail.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I need to do to restore my old lists?  I'm mostly interested just in saving the config files and subscriber lists.  If you have suggestions, can you please be verbose and go step by step since I'm a complete linux moron.

Thanks in advance!

Aleck

[Normando]

Remove your ezmlm rpms.
Then delete /home/e-smith/files/ezmlm directory
Then reinstall again ezmlm rpms
Create the lists as ussual manner, trough server-manager
 with the same name of lists.
Then untar your backup, and copy from backup the directory /home/e-smith/files/ezmlm/lists/yourlistname/subscriber/* to the same directory in server.
The same with all content of "archive" directory.
Don't copy any more
Test, and you see that all run ok.

[asjunk]

This appears to have worked perfectly.  Thank you very, very much!

Aleck