On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Adam Audette wrote:
> Thanks for all of the responses on this. In answer to:
> At 03:29 PM 7/17/00 -0400, Stan Horwitz
>
> I generally wanted to know what files were important to Listserv.
> This is answered below by John Morrison.

Not quite (He only addresses the list's configuration file).
There are other files associated with a list which are also
"important" to the list (if not to LISTSERV), and also should be
important to the list's owner (and subscribers too), including
the list's archives of postings (NOTEBOOK), the list's
welcome/farewell/mailtpl files, maybe it's www interface files,
changelog file, etc.

It really depends on what your purpose in "backing up" a list is.
Peter Rauch

> Adam

> At 12:38 PM 7/17/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >The list headers actually contain all subscribers and their options.
> >This way you save list configuration as well.
> >You can just copy them to a backup OR issue a get list name with
> >the nolock
> >option to have them emailed to you.
> >Be sure you don't forget NOLock.
> >
> >You can refer to the online manuals here.
> >http://www.lsoft.com/info/default.asp?item=manuals
> >
> >Regards,
> >John
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: LISTSERV give-and-take forum
> >[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Adam Audette
> >Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 12:20 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: [LSTSRV-L] Backing up subscriber lists
> >
> >
> >Listserv maintainers --
> >
> >What is the best method for backing up your lists? We are on an NT
> >system running 11 lists and need that subscriber information backed
> >up.
> >
> >I was just using a REVIEW listname and copying it to our file
> >server until I realized a) how crude this solution was and b) how
> >all my CONCEALed subscribers weren't part of the file.
> >
> >I have searched the archives a little -- found a long thread
> >pertinent to VM but not NT.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Adam Audette
>