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Cc: William Orr <will@worrbase.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
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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.