[ale] The importance of regular backups - AKA: The ALE list's getting a blast from the past

[Robert Tweedy]

Derek,

I'd tried to access the list's management page Friday night (was originally investigating why the list had suddenly been quiet all week) and was greeted with a Mailman "you've hit a bug" error page. After checking the logs on the server ALE's running on, I saw that it complained about the config.pck file being unreadable or missing; when I went to investigate the file itself, I saw that it and the config.pck.last files had a size of 0 and a creation date of January 13th indicating that they'd somehow been corrupted/deleted and re-created with no contents.

-Robert


 ---- On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:04:19 -0500 Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote ---- 
 > Robert, 
 >  
 > Robert Tweedy via Ale <ale at ale.org> writes: 
 >  
 > > Hi all, 
 > > 
 > > The ALE mailing list's "config.pck" file corrupted over the weekend 
 > > and wasn't noticed until this evening. This file contains basically 
 >  
 > I'm curious -- how did you notice that it got corrupted? 
 >  
 > -derek 
 >  
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