From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82101 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-sync usage Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:49:13 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87y5m3wts6.fsf@dod.no> References: <87ehnwt27a.fsf@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343505095 24300 80.91.229.3 (28 Jul 2012 19:51:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:51:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30370@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jul 28 21:51:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SvD2y-0000Dh-QQ for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:51:33 +0200 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 1SvD1I-00044e-M4; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:49:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SvD1H-00044S-11 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:49:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SvD15-0000WC-WF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvD14-0007lJ-0j for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:49:34 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SvD14-0007Lt-0T for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:49:34 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-93-129-230-46.dialup.ice.net ([46.230.129.93]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:49:34 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by ip-93-129-230-46.dialup.ice.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:49:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-93-129-230-46.dialup.ice.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SrKqdHKu/R19MQBgBuFHTvmiFYs= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82101 Archived-At: >>>>> Julien Cubizolles : > I've seen many discussions about gnus-sync and I'm considering using it > but I'm not really sure what it's supposed to do :-) It synchronizes read counts and group subscriptions for nntp groups, and topics between machines. The synchronization can be against a file stored remotely, or against a couchdb database. > So far I'm synchronising my messages/configuration on two machines by > syncing the relevant files/directories (Mail/, News/, .newsrc ...) > with unison but I get the feeling that gnus sync would replace it, and > do it better. Well, next generation gnus-sync will definitely be better, when Ted and/or Lars get enough free time to implement it. The current version has done the job for me for about a year or so, and its predecessor for a year before that. I'm using a couchdb database as the gnus-sync repository. > I've read the info in gnus-sync.el but is there some kind of tutorial > available somewhere ? Not beyond what you've seen posted on this group, I think...? You can check out my attempts at using it last year, with Ted's responses and explanations http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80376/focus=80402 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80597 (Looks like I didn't start using it until November last year... I thought I started using it last summer... it's good we have machines to remember for us)