synching two copies of my mail archives?

synching two copies of my mail archives?

[Bill White]

I'm going to make the jump to hyperspace today, and take a computer
home and read mail with it. Before that, I'll make a copy of my mail
archive, /billw/Mail, with scp or rdist.

[970]> du -sh /billw/Mail
1.6G	/billw/Mail

How the heck do I keep these two monster archives in sync?! scp and
rdist can do that, but it takes a while.  Is there anything
faster/better?

Thanks -

bw
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Re: synching two copies of my mail archives?

[Stainless Steel Rat]

* Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>  on Tue, 09 Jan 2001
| How the heck do I keep these two monster archives in sync?! scp and rdist
| can do that, but it takes a while.  Is there anything faster/better?

rsync
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Re: synching two copies of my mail archives?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  9, 2001, Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> wrote:

> How the heck do I keep these two monster archives in sync?! scp and
> rdist can do that, but it takes a while.  Is there anything
> faster/better?

Andrew Tridge's rsync is the best thing since sliced bread.

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Re: synching two copies of my mail archives?

[Charles Sebold]

On 14 Teveth 5761, Bill White wrote:

> I'm going to make the jump to hyperspace today, and take a computer
> home and read mail with it. Before that, I'll make a copy of my mail
> archive, /billw/Mail, with scp or rdist.
> 
> [970]> du -sh /billw/Mail
> 1.6G	/billw/Mail
> 
> How the heck do I keep these two monster archives in sync?! scp and
> rdist can do that, but it takes a while.  Is there anything
> faster/better?

rsync can do it, and only transfer diffs between local and remote
versions.  It can tunnel through ssh, too.

http://rsync.samba.org/
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more dialup stuff (Re: synching two copies of my mail archives?)

[Bill White]

On Tue Jan 09 2001 at 09:53, Bill White <billw> said:

    bw> How the heck do I keep these two monster archives in sync?!
    bw> scp and rdist can do that, but it takes a while.  Is there
    bw> anything faster/better?

Everyone said rsync, and everyone was right. Boy, that's a cool
program.

Here's another dialup/sync question:

At work, I get email from /var/spool/mail/billw.  At home (dialed in)
I don't have direct access to that file, without telnetting and
whatnot.

When I'm dialed up from home should I find some way to access work's
/var/spool/mail/billw directly, or should I coordinate with a running
emacs+gnus on my work machine?  After a quick skim, it looks like
Kai's stuff at
<url:http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/199812/msg00614.html> does
that; is that still the state of the art?

Many thanks!

bw
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"No ma'am, we're musicians."

Re: more dialup stuff (Re: synching two copies of my mail archives?)

[Kai Großjohann]

On 10 Jan 2001, Bill White wrote:

> At work, I get email from /var/spool/mail/billw.  At home (dialed
> in) I don't have direct access to that file, without telnetting and
> whatnot.

One idea is to set up a POP server at work which accesses that file,
then you can access the POP server from home.

> When I'm dialed up from home should I find some way to access work's
> /var/spool/mail/billw directly, or should I coordinate with a
> running emacs+gnus on my work machine?  After a quick skim, it looks
> like Kai's stuff at
> <url:http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/199812/msg00614.html>
> does that; is that still the state of the art?

Well, you could do this, or you could use IMAP.  Set up an IMAP server
at work, then start Gnus at home and use the Agent feature.  But
migrating your email to an IMAP server is a major undertaking.  Don't
do it out of a whim, think about it first.

kai
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Re: more dialup stuff (Re: synching two copies of my mail archives?)

[Hannu Koivisto]

Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:

| When I'm dialed up from home should I find some way to access work's
| /var/spool/mail/billw directly, or should I coordinate with a running
| emacs+gnus on my work machine?  After a quick skim, it looks like
| Kai's stuff at
| <url:http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/199812/msg00614.html> does
| that; is that still the state of the art?

Just in case you don't want to use Agent and/or you use procmail to
split mail, I have a similar rsync-based system that mirrors
.newsrc* and mailfolders and, unless prevented from doing so with a
switch, moves spool files (several of them in procmail's case) to
the local machine (appending them to existing local spools).  If
you are interested, mail me and I'll send the scripts to you.

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