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backing up *FULL* gnus state
From: |
Maurizio Vitale |
Subject: |
backing up *FULL* gnus state |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:47:39 -0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
occasionally, sometimes, somewhere, I need to do a full linux reinstall
wiping my home directory clean. Although I save my .newsrc* files, I
always find that some part of my state is not preserved across the
reinstall. Things that at different times haven't been preserved are:
- nnml groups (these often come up after a bit of playing around, but
I'm not sure what I do to make it happen. They seem unsubscribed)
- rss feeds
- scoring/banning of authors
- hierarchical group organization
- mail fetching (so I have .authinfo added to my list of things to
remember now)
so my question is: what is the full list of files I need to backup in
order to be able to wipe my home clean, reinstall those files and have
gnus behaving *exactly* as before the big purge?
Thanks,
Maurizio
...and yes, I know that a separate partition for my home directory would
solve this problem, but I'm afraid it would introduce others:
distributions save craploads of stuff in home directories and I do not
particularly trust the fact that they're compatible across major
release, or different dstributions.
I do have separate partitions for a few subdirectories of my home, though.
- backing up *FULL* gnus state,
Maurizio Vitale <=