Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:59:02 -0700 From: William Orr <will@worrbase.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lost /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <CAG%2BKJS%2BRVgdCMhDBwtdbcu9=-_Lo7aVd6i1Cvk6nn7fLkUY-mQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206131802180.12460@wonkity.com> References: <CAG%2BKJSJh7dQNg4cnHnu9O0u8_fmvWF0YuWQaeeVPxGrPSaDHnQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxgmBPdBXiyXYkBVU%2BFpwPODJ_AXw0E-W7hkotbt5wBnP3g@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206131802180.12460@wonkity.com>
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Thanks, it looks like I had a copy from May in there that was fairly accurate! On Jun 13, 2012 5:03 PM, "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > 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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