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notmuch-dump
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SYNOPSIS
========
**notmuch** **dump** [--gzip] [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--output=<*file*>] [--] [<*search-term*> ...]
DESCRIPTION
===========
Dump tags for messages matching the given search terms.
Output is to the given filename, if any, or to stdout.
These tags are the only data in the notmuch database that can't be
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.)
See **notmuch-search-terms(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 "--" argument instructs notmuch that
the remaining arguments are search terms.
Supported options for **dump** include
``--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.
**batch-tag**
The default **batch-tag** dump format is intended to more
robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing
whitespace or non-\ **ascii(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 **[A-Za-z0-9@=.,\_+-]** with **%nn** where nn is
the two digit hex encoding. The message ID is a valid
Xapian query, quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting
rules: if the ID contains whitespace or a close paren or
starts with a double quote, it must be enclosed in double
quotes and double quotes inside the ID must be
doubled. The astute reader will notice this is a special
case of the batch input format for **notmuch-tag(1)**;
note that the single message-id query is mandatory for
**notmuch-restore(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). Each line has 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.
``--output=``\ <filename>
Write output to given file instead of stdout.
SEE ALSO
========
**notmuch(1)**, **notmuch-config(1)**, **notmuch-count(1)**,
**notmuch-hooks(5)**, **notmuch-insert(1)**, **notmuch-new(1)**,
**notmuch-reply(1)**, **notmuch-restore(1)**, **notmuch-search(1)**,
**notmuch-search-terms(7)**, **notmuch-show(1)**, **notmuch-tag(1)**
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