notmuch-restore - restores the tags from the given file (see
notmuch dump)
notmuch restore [--accumulate]
[--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)] [--input=<filename>]
Restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch
dump).
The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from
stdin.
Supported options for restore include
- --accumulate
- The union of the existing and new tags is applied, instead of replacing
each message's tags as they are read in from the dump file.
- --format=(sup|batch-tag|auto)
- Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, with each line
specifying a message-id and a set of tags. For details of the actual
formats, see notmuch-dump(1).
- sup
- The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be compatible
with the format of files produced by sup-dump. So if you've previously
been using sup for mail, then the notmuch restore command provides
you a way to import all of your tags (or labels as sup calls them).
- batch-tag
- The batch-tag dump format is intended to more robust against
malformed message-ids and tags containing whitespace or
non-ascii(7) characters. See notmuch-dump(1) for details on
this format.
notmuch restore updates the maildir flags according to
tag changes if the maildir.synchronize_flags configuration option
is enabled. See notmuch-config(1) for details.
- auto
- This option (the default) tries to guess the format from the input. For
correctly formed input in either supported format, this heuristic, based
the fact that batch-tag format contains no parentheses, should be
accurate.
- --include=(config|properties|tags)
- Control what kind of metadata is restored.
- config
- Restore configuration data to the database. Each configuration line starts
with "#@ ", followed by a space separated key-value pair. Both
key and value are hex encoded if needed.
- properties
- Restore 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
notmuch-properties(7) for more details.
- tags
- Restore per-message metadata, namely tags. See format above for
more details.
The default is to restore all available types of data. The option
can be specified multiple times to select some subset.
- --input=<filename>
- Read input from given file instead of stdin.
notmuch restore will detect if the input is compressed in
gzip(1) format and automatically decompress it while reading. This
detection does not depend on file naming and in particular works for
standard input.
notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1),
notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), notmuch-hooks(5),
notmuch-insert(1), notmuch-new(1),
notmuch-properties(7), notmuch-reply(1),
notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7),
notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)
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