From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29228 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Retrieve lost messages in agent directory Date: 14 Feb 2000 11:47:47 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165935 1541 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:05:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CC3D0520 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:50:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB32143; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:49:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:48:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA20913 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:48:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 41672D0520 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:48:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 5048 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2000 19:53:31 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (root@209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 14 Feb 2000 19:53:31 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA08149; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:48:05 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Original-Lines: 45 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29228 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29228 I don't think this is a problem that gnus is responsible for. I think it happened from repeatedly rsyncing the full gnus setup form laptop to Main machine and vis-versa. I may have blown it on the command line or not really understand how rsync works. Or may have even been some other cause. To get to the punch line: I have 2900 messages in gnu.emacs.gnus. Only 700+ are displayed in summary buffer when entered with C-u . I wonder if there is a way to get those articles back into the nov files? Seems like it should be a function similar to nnml-generate-nov-data-bases since the nov files under agent are wholly owned by gnus. I couldn't really tell if `gnus-request-regenerate' would help. An 's' search in gnus-info gives no hits on it. egrepping in *.el files I found it but could'nt really tell what the heck it does. Getting back to rsync for a moment: I hope someone here is well experienced with rsyncing Gnus setup from place to place. My proceedure has been: I work and live all week in one city then go home to another city on weekends or days off etc. When going home I rsync my gnus setup to my laptop like this (from laptop): rsync -avz -e ssh reader@:/home/reader/Mail/ Mail/ rsync " ditto ditto /News/ News/ Then conclude with: scp reader@:/home/reader/.newsr* . That copies to and overwrites the current .newsrc .newsrc.eld on portable machine Reverse the process when coming back to main machine. I suspect I may have left off a trailing slash sometime or something else like that. I've since written scripts to make it harder to screw it up, but just wondered if other rsyncers would see a problem in the above proceedure.