Overview dump and restore tool

[Russ Allbery]

Heath Kehoe <hakehoe at avalon.net> writes:

> I have written a dump and restore tool for overview, which can be used
> to convert an overview database from one storage method to another, or
> to back up an overview database.

> The dump tool acts as a client, doing OVsearch on every group in the 
> active file and printing to stdout a portable, text format dump of all 
> overview records.  The restore tool reads that dump and uses OVadd to 
> place the records into a new overview database.

Isn't overchan usable as the restoration tool?  Or does its crosspost
handling get in the way?

Other than that, this sounds like a very good idea.  As soon as I get a
chance to do some intensive INN work, I'll pick this up.

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