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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:02:29 +0000
From:      George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Backup
Message-ID:  <20020107230229.A79653@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGAECADHAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>; from scott@gerhardt-it.com on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:45:52PM -0600
References:  <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGAECADHAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:45:52PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
> For a full system backup do I need to tar the /usr/ports tree?
> 
> Can I just install the ports from CD and cvsup the ports to restore, or
> will this cause
> problems with the ports DB?

No, you can safely do this without affecting the installed packages (about 
which information is stored in /var/db/pkg)

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George C A Reid			   Tel: (08701) 200870  Ext. 26654
FreeBSD Committer/Developer             greid@FreeBSD.org
Oriel College, Oxford University        george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk

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