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Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Oleg Ginzburg <olevole@olevole.ru>
Subject: Re: backup for /var/db/ports
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On 10/16/2011 21:27, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 17.10.2011 10:13, Doug Barton пишет:
>> On 10/14/2011 17:48, Oleg Ginzburg wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> With /etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb I would also suggest backing up 
>>> /var/db/ports dir
>>
>> I'm curious as to the reason for doing this. The options are easy to
>> recreate, and not particularly dynamic.
> 
> How do you recreate them without backup after N years passed? :-)

I didn't say that they shouldn't be backed up, simply that I don't see
the need to back them up every night.