From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 15: 2:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C1C37B405 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:02:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sobek.lan ([62.252.12.175]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020107230232.XFZB327.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:02:32 +0000 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g07N2TQ79699; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:02:29 GMT (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to greid@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:02:29 +0000 From: George Reid To: Scott Gerhardt Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Backup Message-ID: <20020107230229.A79653@FreeBSD.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scott@gerhardt-it.com on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:45:52PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:45:52PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > For a full system backup do I need to tar the /usr/ports tree? > > Can I just install the ports from CD and cvsup the ports to restore, or > will this cause > problems with the ports DB? No, you can safely do this without affecting the installed packages (about which information is stored in /var/db/pkg) -- George C A Reid Tel: (08701) 200870 Ext. 26654 FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message