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Date:         Fri, 1 May 2015 18:08:09 -0600
Reply-To:     Steve Williams <steve@WILLIAMSITCONSULTING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Steve Williams <steve@WILLIAMSITCONSULTING.COM>
Subject:      Re: Lost archives?
Comments: To: Ben <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <ED39A82B-6633-4762-8273-A62CF260DAAC@gmail.com>
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Hi,

I have an automated archiving system so that I can have the list available on my laptop when I don't have Internet connectivity. It automatically makes a copy of any incoming emails into an "archive" folder.

I have all the list emails (that reached me) in a single file (per year) in a very standard, text format called "mbox". This is the historical format for email storage in the Unix world.

I've got archives back to about March 2006.

I did miss about a month in 2014 of email when my personal email server was down & it was going to a backup and not getting archived.

2015 zips up to 5 meg.

$ ls -l total 1571968 -rw------- 1 steve steve 45,587,317 Nov 27 2011 2006 -rw------- 1 steve steve 100,778,802 May 14 2010 2007 -rw------- 1 steve steve 98,554,735 Nov 27 2011 2008 -rw------- 1 steve steve 87,731,270 May 14 2010 2009 -rw------- 1 steve steve 98,490,119 Nov 27 2011 2010 -rw------- 1 steve steve 101,425,086 Feb 12 2012 2011 -rw------- 1 steve steve 95,416,444 Jan 3 2013 2012 -rw------- 1 steve steve 90,310,624 Jan 3 2014 2013 -rw------- 1 steve steve 65,278,136 Feb 3 22:53 2014 -rw------- 1 steve steve 20,787,145 May 1 17:51 2015

I'm not sure if anyone could benefit from this, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

Cheers, Steve Williams

On 01/05/2015 1:01 PM, Ben wrote:Hi,

> If you will recall, we had a List meltdown recently where a disc drive went kaput and required replacement. On top on that, there was a paid subscription service which was interrupted. > > Perhaps List Admin can answer your question as this moderator does not have access to the List server. > > > BenT > Mod > > >> On May 1, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote: >> >> I think Neil misunderstands the problem. >> >> To demonstrate the problem I did a search for messages containing >> "Dennis" from January 2015 to April 2015. I got 60 hits, all from >> 15/04/06 to 15/04/30. What happened to the messages from January 1, >> 2015 through April 5, 2015. I know Dennis Haynes wrote some messages >> during this period. >> >> How about a response from one of the moderators? >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Fri, 1 May 2015 09:09:38 -0700, Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote: >>> >>> FWIW, I just used "April 2015" to "April 2015" parameters and got >> results. >>> Also, http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html ? >>> >>> Neil. >>> >>>> On 5/1/15, Ed McLean <email99@bellsouth.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> No one responded to this question. Have these archives been totally >> lost >>>> or are they still searchable? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:47:02 -0400, email99@bellsouth.net >>>> <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Were the 2015 list archives through the first week of April lost in >> the >>>>> recent server difficulties? They don't seem to be available at >>>>> http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html . >>> >>> -- >>> Neil n >>> >>> Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca> >>> >>> 1988 Westy Images <https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/New1988Westy> >>> >>> 1981 Westfalia "Jaco" Images, technical >> <http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/> >>> Vanagon-Bus VAG Gas Engine Swap Group <http://tinyurl.com/khalbay>


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