--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+# Copyright (C) 2019 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+# License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
+# xcpdb: Xapian copy database, a wrapper around Xapian's copydatabase(1)
+use PublicInbox::InboxWritable;
+use PublicInbox::Xapcmd;
+use PublicInbox::Admin;
+PublicInbox::Admin::require_or_die('-search');
+my $usage = "Usage: public-inbox-xcpdb INBOX_DIR\n";
+my @ibxs = PublicInbox::Admin::resolve_inboxes(\@ARGV) or die $usage;
+my $cmd = [qw(copydatabase --no-renumber)];
+open my $null, '>', '/dev/null' or die "failed to open /dev/null: $!\n";
+my $rdr = { 1 => fileno($null) };
+foreach (@ibxs) {
+ my $ibx = PublicInbox::InboxWritable->new($_);
+ # we rely on --no-renumber to keep docids synched to NNTP
+ PublicInbox::Xapcmd::run($ibx, $cmd, undef, $rdr);
+}