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

[Jim Kinney]

Used to be an automated backup until my (stupidly overpriced) robotic
LTO3 tape system died. SWMBO has vehemently vetoed any more funding for
hardware. Keeps muttering about "the other stuff you're supposed to be
doing", and "fix the house first".
Fix the house first is at least a 2 year, full-time, 40+ hours per
week process :-( 
On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 09:09 -0500, Derek Atkins via Ale wrote:
> Thanks, and here I was hoping there was an automated method.  But
> goodto know!
> Thanks,
> -derek
> Robert Tweedy <robert at robert-tweedy.com> writes:
> > Derek,
> > I'd tried to access the list's management page Friday night
> > (wasoriginally investigating why the list had suddenly been quiet
> > allweek) and was greeted with a Mailman "you've hit a bug"
> > errorpage. After checking the logs on the server ALE's running on,
> > I sawthat it complained about the config.pck file being unreadable
> > ormissing; when I went to investigate the file itself, I saw that
> > it andthe config.pck.last files had a size of 0 and a creation date
> > ofJanuary 13th indicating that they'd somehow been
> > corrupted/deleted andre-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  > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
-- 
James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

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