<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b> <b>dump</b> [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--] [--output=<<u>file</u>>] [--]
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>dump</b> [--gzip] [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--output=<<u>file</u>>] [--]
[<<u>search-term</u>> ...]
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therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to
incremental backup than the native database files.)
+ See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
+ <search-terms>. With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the
+ database will be generated. A <b>--</b> argument instructs notmuch that the
+ remaining arguments are search terms.
+
+ Supported options for <b>dump</b> include
+
<b>--gzip</b> Compress the output in a format compatible with <b>gzip</b>(1).
<b>--format=(sup|batch-tag)</b>
- Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with
+ Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with
one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags.
<b>batch-tag</b>
- The default <b>batch-tag</b> dump format is intended to more
- robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing
- whitespace or non-<b>ascii</b>(7) characters. Each line has the
- form
- +<<u>encoded-tag</u>> +<<u>encoded-tag</u>> ... -- id:<<u>quoted-mes‐</u>
- <u>sage-id</u>>
+ The default <b>batch-tag</b> dump format is intended to more
+ robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing
+ whitespace or non-<b>ascii</b>(7) characters. Each line has the
+ form:
+
+ +<*encoded-tag*\ > +<*encoded-tag*\ > ... -- id:<*quoted-message-id*\ >
Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching
the regex <b>[A-Za-z0-9@=.,</b>_<b>+-]</b> with <b>%nn</b> where nn is the two
So if you've previously been using sup for mail, then the
<b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> command provides you a way to import all
of your tags (or labels as sup calls them). Each line has
- the following form
- <<u>message-id</u>> <b>(</b> <<u>tag</u>> ... <b>)</b>
+ the following form:
+
+ <*message-id*\ > **(** <*tag*\ > ... **)**
with zero or more tags are separated by spaces. Note that
(malformed) message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null
characters. Note also that tags with spaces will not be
correctly restored with this format.
- With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database
- will be generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the
- remaining arguments are search terms.
+ <b>--include=(config|properties|tags)</b>
+ Control what kind of metadata is included in the output.
+
+ <b>config</b> Output configuration data stored in the database. Each
+ line starts with "#@ ", followed by a space separated
+ key-value pair. Both key and value are hex encoded if
+ needed.
+
+ <b>properties</b>
+ Output per-message (key,value) metadata. Each line
+ starts with "#= ", followed by a message id, and a space
+ separated list of key=value pairs. Ids, keys and values
+ are hex encoded if needed. See <a href='../notmuch-properties-7/'>notmuch-properties</a>(7) for
+ more details.
+
+ <b>tags</b> Output per-message boolean metadata, namely tags. See
+ <u>format</u> above for description of the output.
+
+ The default is to include all available types of data. The
+ option can be specified multiple times to select some subset. As
+ of version 3 of the dump format, there is a header line of the
+ following form:
+
+ #notmuch-dump <*format*>:<*version*> <*included*>
+
+ where <<u>included</u>> is a comma separated list of the above options.
- See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7) for details of the supported syntax
- for <search-terms>.
+ <b>--output=<filename></b>
+ Write output to given file instead of stdout.
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<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<pre>
<a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>not‐</a>
- <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>much-insert</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1),
- <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>not‐</a>
- <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1)
+ <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>much-insert</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-properties-7/'>notmuch-properties</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>much-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>much-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1)
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<h2>AUTHOR</h2>
<h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
<pre>
- 2014, Carl Worth and many others
+ 2009-2020, Carl Worth and many others
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-<h2>0.19</h2>
+<h2>0.31</h2>