How to recover the messages from the backup journal.

Issue

• We have a HornetQ cluster running inside JBoss EAP 6.2.2 with the following characteristics:
  Symmetrical
  Live/backup pairs
  Replication

  Given the following scenario, we end up with messages that are stuck in the backup journals:
  Start EAP 1 which includes a HornetQ live and backup server
  Start EAP 2 which includes a HornetQ live and backup server
  Start EAP 3 which consumes messages from the HornetQ cluster via an MDB
  Start EAP 4 which produces messages via a connection factory that balances the messages to the 2 live servers
  Messages are being consumed by EAP 3 from EAP 1 and EAP 2
  Stop EAP 1, the backup server on EAP 2 becomes active
  Messages are still being consumed by EAP 3 from EAP 2
  Stop EAP 3, messages are no longer being consumed
  Leave EAP 4 running for a little longer and then stop it, EAP 2 live/backup now contain unconsumed messages
  Stop EAP 2, no active HornetQ servers are left
  Start EAP 1
  Start EAP 2, journals from backup server on EAP 2 contains unconsumed messages but the journal is moved aside and the journal from EAP 1 is replicated
  to the backup on EAP 2.
  Start EAP 3 to consume messages. Notice that some of the messages are lost

  We understand that when EAP 2 starts, the journals from its backup HornetQ server are moved aside in favour of the new journal from the live server
  running on EAP 1. However given the fact that this is a situation that could occur in our production environment we are looking for a
  procedure/bestpractise to recover the messages from the backup journal.

  We know that we can manually move the journal files or change configurations to make a backup server active but preferably we are looking for an
  automated/scripted way to;
  check if recovery is necessary
  execute the recovery itself
  tools to look inside journals/move messages
  Can you provide us with information how to correctly implement this?