From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 14:59:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FA6106564A for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:59:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will@worrbase.com) Received: from mail.worrbase.com (pony-express.csh.rit.edu [129.21.50.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E628FC19 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:59:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.worrbase.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.worrbase.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABA3A807D for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:59:04 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=worrbase.com; h= mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from :to:cc:content-type; s=mail; bh=w4NIZR8z49FnR7q871yUvPaoaauSvTx6 NP2/2hooXuE=; b=Wa3JAax8XwNJAv5HezySh9Y0eQzV3hcrG+EZ9qEIiuP3pBLD 4zxQpv5gm843QNUDP5ypKbxTcgneQ2EMyWlugmgpZC52gHXYWGq/Nqb764RLw/YY NZfP6P3G8PbrSvcARcukc2wwcupHPBJVgw2zWlfP1uYa8wrNHRccr3ILIFs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=worrbase.com; h=mime-version :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; q=dns; s=mail; b=mdCwZmX3idnqVFTpdyjFPZbmew+O9GeG bjFUBkzfGAxElYSvPe4FWAEyv4BbJ/q6V/S75xS8gqedJbWymSS1zmyscvZjOsI5 ZdaZBa5pu9aOKCgrY5jJ9mV3pC3SW2QKZJ+FspT66tlzSgiZ2QcIGshCDn5GPJrF ajeIv7BKFuU= Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mail.worrbase.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3AA7BA8014 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:59:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lbon10 with SMTP id n10so2624803lbo.13 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:59:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.24.229 with SMTP id x5mr1185068lbf.23.1339685942579; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.84.42 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.84.42 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:59:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:59:02 -0700 Message-ID: From: William Orr To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Eitan Adler , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lost /var/db/pkg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:59:12 -0000 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" wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: > > On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr 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. >