From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31501 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Sync two ~/Mail directories on Windows? Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:20:41 +0200 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 1035167904 14437 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:38:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:38:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=FChne?= Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7E6D051F for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:25:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAC01511; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:21:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:20:23 -0500 (CDT) 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 RAA02956 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:20:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D49D051E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id AAA26436; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:20:42 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id AAA20999; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:20:42 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id AAA30112; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:20:41 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 31 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31501 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31501 (Potential off-topic alert.) Suppose you have two computers, both running Windows (98SE, say) and you want to use Gnus to read mail on them. Most of the time, you use the desktop machine, but a few times a week you want to use the laptop instead. The laptop has sufficient disk space, so you want a full copy of ~/Mail (and other files such as ~/.newsrc.eld and so on). It is not practical to just transfer the whole ~/Mail directory every time, it being 600MB or so and the transfer takes quite a while even on fast ethernet... On a Unixish system, life is simple: use rsync in one direction before traveling and in the other direction after traveling. Problem solved. But on a Windows system? Does the `briefcase' feature do the trick? Or is it possible to get rsync to work on Windows (both client and server side!)? Or maybe even dump/restore, with incremental dumps? It seems that GNU tar has a feature to ignore old files -- that could be used, perhaps. (The mail backend is nnml, so I guess it is not necessary to be able to transfer file diffs; just transferring the new files ought to be sufficient.) kai -- I like BOTH kinds of music.