3 public-inbox-convert - convert v1 inboxes to v2
7 public-inbox-convert [OPTIONS] OLD_DIR NEW_DIR
11 public-inbox-convert copies the contents of an old "v1" inbox
12 into a new "v2" inbox. It makes no changes to the old inbox
13 and users are expected to update the "inboxdir" path in
14 L<public-inbox-config(5)> to point to the path of NEW_DIR
15 once they are satisfied with the conversion.
23 Disables Xapian and overview DB indexing on the new inbox.
24 By default, public-inbox-convert creates a new index in the
25 v2 inbox and indexes all existing messages, a lengthy
26 operation for large inboxes.
28 =item -j JOBS, --jobs=JOBS
30 Control the number of indexing jobs and Xapian shards of the v2
31 inbox. By default, this is the detected CPU count but capped
32 at 4 due to various bottlenecks. The number of Xapian shards
33 will be 1 less than the JOBS value, since there is a single
34 process which distributes work to the Xapian shards.
36 =item -L LEVEL, --index-level=LEVEL
44 =item --sequential-shard
46 =item --batch-size=BYTES
48 =item --max-size=BYTES
50 These options affect indexing. They have no effect if
51 L</--no-index> is specified
53 See L<public-inbox-index(1)> for a description of these options.
63 The default config file, normally "~/.public-inbox/config".
64 See L<public-inbox-config(5)>
70 Editing "~/.public-inbox/config" (or whatever C<PI_CONFIG> is
71 set to) will be required to start using the new directory.
75 Writes from L<public-inbox-mda(1)> or L<git-fetch(1)> to the v1
76 inbox which occur after the start of the conversion will not
77 be picked up in the v2 inbox.
79 Users of L<public-inbox-watch(1)> do not have to worry about
80 this. They only need to update the config file to point to the
81 v2 inbox, send C<SIGHUP> public-inbox-watch process to reload
82 the config file, and then C<SIGUSR1> to rescan existing
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