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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: restore from /var/backup/pkgng.db
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Hi!

> What program produces /var/backup/pkgng.db and pkgdb.bak.tbz?

/var/backup/pkgng.db comes from:

/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/411.pkg-backup

> How can these files be used if the pkg database is corrupted?

pkg backup -r /var/backups/pkgng.db

should work.

> If I manually run pkg backup -d somefile, is somefile
> identical to /var/backup/pkgng.db?

I think so, yes.

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