From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67887 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus should backup .newsrc.eld Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:46:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87bpvh51rg.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <878wqmht0f.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229064424 16975 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2008 06:47:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:47:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16333@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Dec 12 07:48:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LB1om-0003Bu-D2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:48:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LB1nY-0006c2-Vl; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:46:53 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LB1nX-0006bf-Ie for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:46:51 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LB1nU-0008HQ-OL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:46:51 -0600 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LB1nh-0003Vg-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:47:01 +0100 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D36D1E5D0B for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:46:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:46:47 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: EUAXrhXQbSO2+7gvb/gaURZUQXmCLGHbPp4KOCyV1tS/ 1229064406 Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (p54AF0EA7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.14.167]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 27FD21E2B2 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:46:45 -0500 (EST) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <878wqmht0f.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:17:20 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67887 Archived-At: jidanni@jidanni.org writes: > Oh, there it is > -rw-r--r-- 1 95765 2008-12-12 13:12 .newsrc.eld > -rw-r--r-- 1 95751 2008-12-12 12:06 .backups/.newsrc.eld!!!home!jidanni!~ > I see, I am using > ;;; backup-dir.el --- allow backup files to live in some other directory(s). > I found somewhere. Well, that's only one measly backup... You don't need an external lib to do that. That's what I use: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq version-control t) ;; Save the 20 last versions! (setq kept-old-versions 0) (setq kept-new-versions 20) (setq delete-old-versions t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((".*" . "~/.backupFiles/"))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Bye, Tassilo