From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Why gnus-sync?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:37:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk3bzmon.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mwzbu7u4.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:56:51 -0400")
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:56:51 -0400 Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
DA> I was just thinking about using gnus-sync to synchronize my newsgroups
DA> across computers, but then I realized (I think) that I could just keep
DA> my .newsrc* in a Dropbox or some such. Is there any advantage to
DA> gnus-sync over an arrangement like that?
The LeSync (CouchDB) backend is a bit better about synchronizing: it
won't overwrite newer data when you `s'ave the marks, and it has a
timestamped ID for every group. So you can read some groups and only
save those, not the whole file.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-24 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 16:56 Dave Abrahams
2012-10-24 19:37 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2012-10-24 20:13 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-10-24 21:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-10-24 22:41 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-10-26 12:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-10-26 16:25 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-10-26 16:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-10-26 16:28 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-10-26 16:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-10-27 14:30 ` Steinar Bang
2012-10-27 14:48 ` Steinar Bang
2012-12-02 16:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-03 9:52 ` Steinar Bang
2012-12-10 21:18 ` Steinar Bang
2016-03-06 20:10 ` Dave Abrahams
2016-03-07 13:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
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