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From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>,
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	Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Subject: Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg
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On 4/22/2010 6:44 AM, Diane Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:12:08PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> Hmm, I guess you shouldn't backup /var/foo to /var/bar. If /var is lost,
>>> your backup is gone, too.
> 
> In your crontab
> 
> MAILTO=...
> @weekly          /usr/sbin/pkg_info -I -a

pkg_info -o -a would probably be more useful from the standpoint of
rebuilding ports after a lost /var/db/pkg. For portmaster users
'portmaster --list-origins' would give you a list that you could then do
'portmaster `cat list`' to rebuild everything for you.


hth,

Doug

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