debian man page for sup-dump

SUP-DUMP(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SUP-DUMP(1)

NAME
       sup-dump - dumps message state from Sup index

SYNOPSIS
       sup-dump [options]

DESCRIPTION
       Dumps  all  message  state  from  the  Sup index to standard out. You can later use sup-sync --restored --restore <filename> to recover the
       index.

       This tool is primarily useful in the event that a Sup upgrade breaks index format compatibility.

OPTIONS
       --version, -v
	      Print version and exit

       --help, -h
	      Show help message

EXAMPLES
       Dump message state and store in file

	      sup-dump > filename

       Dump message state and compress output to store in file

	      sup-dump | bzip2 > filename.bz2

SEE ALSO
       sup-mail(1), sup-sync(1), sup-import-dump(1)

AUTHOR
       Sup was written by William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>.

       This manual page was written by Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   April 9, 2012						       SUP-DUMP(1)