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Subject: Re: conf/156396: Make 220.backup-pkgdb cd(1) and backup only the
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Synopsis: Make 220.backup-pkgdb cd(1) and backup only the package database.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: dougb
State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 14 19:04:01 UTC 2011
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Thank you for your interest in this issue. However, it's safer to back up
from the absolute path for a variety of reasons, especially because there
may be symlinks involved in the path. Given that restoring should be an
infrequent event we can live with a minor inconvenience at that point to
have the safety of making sure that the backup itself is valid. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156396