From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14289 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus and rsync Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:35:11 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87zku8cwfb.fsf@invalid.invalid> <87ocaetdmn.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87lj5a2bw7.fsf@invalid.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291957477 14991 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 05:04:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:04:37 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 06:04:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQv9k-000136-4Y for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:04:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQv9j-000747-Fo for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:04:31 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1288866912 25766 85.183.18.158 (4 Nov 2010 10:35:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:35:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84910 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:27:55 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14289 Archived-At: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> nunojsilva@invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) writes: >> >>> So I've now hit the issue where I have two computers on which I want to >>> keep gnus stuff on-sync. >>> >>> I've tried the simple solution: rsyncing the whole bunch of files (news, >>> mail, .gnus.el, and some other gnus files. >> >> maybe have a look at unison? works very well for keeping systems in >> sync. > > I will, but AFAICT, from the debugging I made today, the issue is not > rsync, so I'll delay looking unison for a while. > >>> Unfortunately, this doesn't work as expected: in some mail folders the >>> unread messages are months old,[...] > > As promised, I tested diffing the rsync files with a plain tarball sync, > and it's the same. > > What happens is that, after starting gnus, a lot of NOV files get > changed. > > Removing every nov folder (*/.nnmaildir/nov, relative to nnmaildir root) > before starting gnus forces gnus to regenerate these, what causes a > slightly long delay but works (that is, now the unread messages are the > same as in the original gnus setup). > > Next step seems to be understanding which changes are made to NOV files > so I can know why is this happening... > > (Same Gnus and Emacs version on both computers.) I tried a plain old sync for a while with gnus and more often that not things went wrong. The best way I found is to use offlineimap to sync a local dovecot server. Since gnus uses the server flags all is dandy.