Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:03:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: William Orr <will@worrbase.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lost /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206131802180.12460@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmBPdBXiyXYkBVU%2BFpwPODJ_AXw0E-W7hkotbt5wBnP3g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG%2BKJSJh7dQNg4cnHnu9O0u8_fmvWF0YuWQaeeVPxGrPSaDHnQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxgmBPdBXiyXYkBVU%2BFpwPODJ_AXw0E-W7hkotbt5wBnP3g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr <will@worrbase.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing >> /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been >> backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this >> happened). Is there a way I can restore it, or at least manually add >> entries I know for sure about? > > look in /var/db/pkgdb.bak.tbz ^^^ ITYM /var/backups/pkgdb.bak.tbz.
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