[Mailman-Users] disaster recovery help

[Chris Haumesser]

My filesystem recently crashed, breaking some aspects of my mailman 
installation.

The email portion of the list itself is still functioning (for 
non-digest subscribers), and all the archives are intact. But I seem to 
be missing some config pickles that are preventing digest delivery, 
emergency moderation, and probably other features that I haven't 
stumbled upon yet.

All of the broken items generate the following message in the logs:

Apr 21 09:00:01 2011 (29813) couldn't load config file 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/.keep/config.pck
Apr 21 09:00:01 2011 (29813) couldn't load config file 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/.keep/config.pck.last
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/var/lib/mailman/lists/.keep/config.pck.last'
Apr 21 09:00:01 2011 (29813) couldn't load config file 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/.keep/config.db
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/var/lib/mailman/lists/.keep/config.db'
Apr 21 09:00:01 2011 (29813) couldn't load config file 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/.keep/config.db.last
EOF read where object expected
Apr 21 09:00:01 2011 (29813) All .keep fallbacks were corrupt, giving up

Indeed, these files were lost in the filesystem crash, and I do not have 
backups of them.

What are my options here? Can I do something like:

- export list of users
- move the broken list out of the way
- create a new list with the same name
- resubscribe members
- copy the old archives back into the new list

What gotchas am I going to run across trying to do something like the 
above?

Any other suggestions?

Appreciate any guidance ...


Cheers,


-C-