Re: Gnus Own-Cloudy?

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Tuesday, 10 Feb 2015 at 18:20, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

[...]

> Is there anything you're sync'ing beyond the files/directories that I
> mentioned in my first post?

Hi Eric,

So, my approach for synchronising is to have a single directory that is
synchronised, called very non-imaginatively "~/synced".  In there, I have
(for gnus) three directories: News, Mail and dotfiles.

In my home directory, I have News symbolically linked to
~/synced/News.  The same for Mail.  I also have .newsrc.eld linked to
~/synced/dotfiles/newsrd.eld.  Likewise for ~/.gnus.el.

Because I use the registery, I have ~/.gnus.registry.eioio linked to
~/synced/dotfiles/gnus.registry.eioio.

For completeness, I also have the following gnus variable defined:

(setq gnus-startup-file "~/synced/newsrc")

although I am not sure what effect this has but it's been in my .gnus.el
file for yonks...

I cannot see anything else that I synchronise.

However, my main motivation for synchronising gnus was/is to be able to
work offline so I use the gnus agent.  Maybe this makes a difference?

For completeness, my sync routine is:

1. boot up and log in.
2. run unison to synchronise
3. work work work play work
   a) if using gnus, every so often, execute gnus-agent-fetch-session
4. run unison
5. turn system off

and I do this on every system except for work desktop that is up 24/7
and is essentially the "server" for all my other systems.  All
synchronisations of the home system, the laptop and the handheld are
with this office desktop system.  Sort of a star configuration.

The gnus cloud initiative won't make much difference for me as gnus is
but one element that I synchronise.  I have all my working files in
~/synced (around 14 GB) including research papers, email, org, talks,
code, blah blah blah.  I use my various systems as a form of redundant
backup... but more importantly every system I have looks the same so I
can pick up any of them and get to work right away!

HTH,
eric

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