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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>
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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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