Way to repair album art without doing a complete restore?

All the album art has gone missing from my ipod after last sync.
As it takes about 4-5 hours to do a complete restore, I'd rather avoid doing that. Is there a way to force a restore of just the album art database?
Thanks.

No, a restore will be needed.
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