MHA-DBRECOVER(1)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, this is mha-dbrecover — the lil utility that rebuilds a MHonArc archive database. that's literally the whole job. and yes, this page lives in the MHonArc Documentation manual, section 1, iykyk ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mha-dbrecover [options]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so mha-dbrecover is a utility program that's part of the MHonArc software package 🎀 and the way it works is so iconic: it lets you rebuild a MHonArc archive database from the HTML message files. which means — bestie, listen — if your database gets corrupted or you accidentally deleted it 😭, you can recover. that's it. that's the whole main character move. periodt.

now, lowkey important thing: the documentation for MHonArc ships in HTML format. and because it's so big and so organized, it is not suited for manpage format 💀 so don't come looking here for the full tea. instead, go ask your system administrator where the documentation has been installed on your system, or peek at "AVAILABILITY" below to find out where you can access the documentation on the web 🌈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

mha-dbrecover takes all the options available to mhonarc, plus these extra ones 💖 (yes, all of them, she's generous like that):

• -dbr-startnum # — the starting message number to recover data from 🫶 this one is a lifesaver when you've got a ton of message files chillin' in a directory but you only want to recover a subset of them.

if you don't specify this option, the starting number is 0.

• -dbr-endnum # — the ending message number to recover data from 🌸 same energy as the last one: perfect when you have many message files in a directory and only want a subset back.

if you don't specify this option, all messages starting from -dbr-startnum will be recovered.

⚠️ NOTE: only a subset of the options available to mhonarc are actually supported, since many of them are just not applicable for recovering operations. so don't assume every single flag is gonna do something, bestie 🙈

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

<http://www.mhonarc.org/>

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Earl Hood, mhonarc@mhonarc.org 💜

MHonArc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY 🚨 and MHonArc may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the MHonArc distribution.

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okay that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 no cap. this is MHonArc v2.6, dated 2009-05-03, and she ate, fr fr. go recover that database, you got this 🫶💖✨