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

[Derek Atkins]

Thanks, and here I was hoping there was an automated method.  But good
to know!

Thanks,

-derek

Robert Tweedy <robert at robert-tweedy.com> writes:

> 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 
>  >  
>  > --  
>  >        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745 
>  >        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com 
>  >        Computer and Internet Security Consultant 
>  > 
>
>
>
>

-- 
       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant