What happens if you go to the admin page for the list? Does that seem OK or what? If dumpdb is telling the truth, the list's admin pages should at most show default settings and no members. What are the sizes of config.pck and config.pck.last?
Yep.
If you go to the list's admin pages and everything looks totally OK
including the membership, make some innocuous change in settings and then look at "bin/dumpdb" of the config.pck again. It should display all the list attributes, membership, member options, etc.
Unless everything looks good including gate_news being OK, I'd restore the config.pck only from the backup.
Restore is going well, too bad that partition is almost a terabyte as it took forever to blow out.
Mark, thanks again for your help in this.
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James H. Edwards Network Systems Administrator Judicial Information Division jedwards@nmcourts.com