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[Peter P.]

Olly, David, list(s),

* Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> [2023-07-04 02:20]:
[...]
> Was this database originally created by Xapian < 1.4.22?  It looks
> like it could be the result of the bug fixed in 1.4.22 with handling
> commit() failure on disk full.
Indeed I have Debian's libxapian30 package installed which reports
version 1.4.22-1 and I *might* have ran out of disk space in the not too
distant past.

> > >> 2)  Move the database out of the way, re-run notmuch new,
> > >> and restore your state using "notmuch restore < notmuch-db.txt"
> > >  
> > > I'd be fine regenerating the entire database without a backup dump even,
> > > I don't think there is anything in there that can't be regernerated,
> > > no?
> > 
> > The main thing that would be lost is tags that are not synched to
> > maildir flags. In the "standard" workflow "inbox" is such a tag.
> 
> If there's tag data in the database which isn't backed up or synced to
> maildir flags, you may be able to rescue it using:
> 
> https://git.xapian.org/?p=xapian;a=blob;f=README.notmuch;hb=refs/heads/notmuch-tag-rescue-hack
> 
> This creates a file with the tag data in the format `notmuch restore`
> expects.  I'd expect this would work for your database as the termlist
> table is mostly OK.
Thank you, I did meanwhile recreate the database from scratch and it
seems to work™.

best, Peter