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| author |  David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2014-03-28 22:14:51 -0300 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2014-04-12 07:59:44 -0300 |
| commit | 3c13bc0321baaf340663779d6fce2b1f34c1c2c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 482e64a162df828622440c1818bf58624bff2435 /doc | |
| parent | 69867c33fa946514e9de6efff0541762b2755484 (diff) | |
dump: support gzipped and atomic output
The main goal is to support gzipped output for future internal
calls (e.g. from notmuch-new) to notmuch_database_dump.
The additional dependency is not very heavy since xapian already pulls
in zlib.
We want the dump to be "atomic", in the sense that after running the
dump file is either present and complete, or not present. This avoids
certain classes of mishaps involving overwriting a good backup with a
bad or partial one.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst index 17d1da5c..d94cb4f8 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ recreated from the messages themselves. The output of notmuch dump is therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to incremental backup than the native database files.) +``--gzip`` + Compress the output in a format compatible with **gzip(1)**. + ``--format=(sup|batch-tag)`` Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags. |