From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/837 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Felix Natter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Backing up all of Gnus Date: 29 Jul 2002 21:19:16 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: <87ptx69waz.fsf@gmx.net> References: <87vg6zzpwc.fsf@gmx.net> <84wurfmuih.fsf@tecont.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667734 8619 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:11 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.teledanmark.no!news.telebyte.nl!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: felix@couchpotato Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1027970254 04 20528 TnEfbwZVSHAPOB 020729 19:17:34 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520036860799-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:977 Original-Lines: 22 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 977 Tue Jan 17 17:28:11 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:837 Archived-At: Ralf Muschall writes: > Felix Natter writes: > > > I want to back up all of Gnus so that I can continue exactly > > where I left off with the new Debian, and I want to verify > > that I get this right. > > I'd guess that the article numbers mentioned in > > > x ~/.newsrc.eld > > become invalid, since they enumerate the local copies of articles in > your /var/spool/news/, which will start from scratch unless you backup > all that stuff too. I am not running a local news server (I use the news-server of my ISP). Are my steps enough for that ? -- Felix Natter Obsessive. C-K. (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)