From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>
Cc: notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: backing up tags
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:35:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgyqc79s.fsf@m4x.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ri6lfaanfzn.fsf@suse.cz>
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Hello,
On 2021-03-26 15:31, Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 26 2021, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I do not include my (huge, more than 5GB) notmuch database in backups,
>> as it can be recreated from the email files… with one exception: tags.
>> So I’m wondering if there is a way to backup these tags (and only the
>> tags) with the hope it would be much smaller. Do you know ways to do it?
>>
>
> I believe that "notmuch dump" is supposed to do exactly that. At least
> I hope so because that is how I am backing up my email tags :-)
Thank you for the suggestion, I’ll have a look. Someone also privately
suggested https://framagit.org/manu/notmuch-tools, which can be used for
tags synchronization.
Thanks again,
Alan
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2021-03-26 13:51 backing up tags Alan Schmitt
2021-03-26 14:31 ` Martin Jambor
2021-03-26 14:35 ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
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