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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2023 12:12:28 -0800
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <D7579ED7-9B44-4EF4-A11B-5FD5348BD46C@sermon-archive.info>
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> On Dec 11, 2023, at 08:52, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
>=20
> Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> writes:
>=20
>>> On Dec 11, 2023, at 01:24, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:41:11 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
>>>> I have upgraded using freebsd-update a number of time on one =
system.
>>>> There are two files I would like to retrieve from the previous
>>>> incarnation.  I don't want to revert them, just put them somewhere
>>>> where I can retrieve their contents.  Is this possible?=20
>>>> /var/db/freebsd-update is intact from several years and updates =
ago.
>>>=20
>>> There should be a backup of every file freebsd-update has modified.
>>> It is located in /var/tmp, if I remember correctly.
>>>=20
>>> What files in particular are you searching for?
>>=20
>> I didn't find anything in /var/tmp except for the vi recovery files.  =
Looking for sshd_config and ssh_config.
>>=20
>> -- Doug
>=20
> It is in /var/db/freebsd-update, not /var/tmp.

I found /var/db/freebsd-update/files which has files from 2017 and on =
till the last update.  However, the names are encoded in some way - =
e.g.,

092a2690192245310b6c7db95cde1ace858b83380538e7db34473a1d22451fc1.gz

I probably need to clean up that directory, but how do I find the file =
name from the above?

-- Doug





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