[Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

[Dan Mick]

> On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 15:32, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > Restoring a dumpdb file is a bit of a pain as you end up having to
> > wrap it in a bit of python that mays it look like an object and
> > marshalling that to disk.  Not a big pain to be sure, but more pain
> > than you get with configdb.  Using configdb gets a dumpt of the DB
> > which can be re-imported by the same tool to re-create to state of
> > the DB. 
> 
> configdb is a separate tool or have I missed something?

JC means "config_list",  but I'm missing something; if you just
want to back the files up, why don't you just back them up?
They don't need to be transmogrified on the way out and back in.