Maurizio Vitale <[email protected]> writes:
> 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. Hi Maurizio, AFAIR last time I tried a full migration, apart from the gnus configuration file, I copied over the following things: * .newsrc* * .authinfo * the nnml-directory which in my case is set to ~/Mail.Gnus (The active file is here. Also note that each nnml group has it's own .marks/.overview files in it's directory.) * and my News/ directory (haven't changed the default) I don't remember losing anything while having transferred the above. However, I guess that this depends on the amount of configuration/customization you have performed in your .gnus file. Good luck _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
