svn commit: r46682 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports
Brad Davis
brd at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 12 14:24:06 UTC 2015
Author: brd
Date: Tue May 12 14:24:05 2015
New Revision: 46682
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46682
Log:
Reword the section about pkg backups to reflect that they are enabled by default now.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Tue May 12 10:27:17 2015 (r46681)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Tue May 12 14:24:05 2015 (r46682)
@@ -854,34 +854,38 @@ Deinstalling ca_root_nss-3.15.1_1... don
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="pkgng-backup">
- <title>Backing Up the Package Database</title>
+ <title>Restoring the Package Database</title>
<para>Unlike the traditional package management system,
<application>pkg</application> includes its own package
- database backup mechanism. To manually back up the contents
- of the package database, run the following command, replacing
- <replaceable>pkgng.db</replaceable> with a suitable file
- name:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg backup -d <replaceable>pkgng.db</replaceable></userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Additionally, <application>pkg</application> includes
- a &man.periodic.8; script to automatically perform a daily
- back up of the package database. This functionality is
- enabled if <literal>daily_backup_pkgdb_enable</literal> is
- set to <literal>YES</literal> in &man.periodic.conf.5;.</para>
+ database backup mechanism. This functionality is enabled by
+ default.</para>
<tip>
<para>To disable the periodic script from backing up the
package database, set
- <literal>daily_backup_pkgdb_enable</literal> to
- <literal>NO</literal> in &man.periodic.conf.5;.</para>
+ <literal>daily_backup_pkgdb_enable="NO"</literal> in
+ &man.periodic.conf.5;.</para>
</tip>
<para>To restore the contents of a previous package database
- backup, run:</para>
+ backup, run the following command replacing
+ <replaceable>/path/to/pkg.sql</replaceable> with the location of
+ the backup:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg backup -r <replaceable>/path/to/pkgng.db</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg backup -r <replaceable>/path/to/pkg.sql</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>If restoring a backup taken by the periodic script,
+ it must be decompressed prior to be restored.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>To run a manual backup of the
+ <application>pkg</application> database, run the following
+ command, replacing <replaceable>/path/to/pkg.sql</replaceable>
+ with a suitable file name and location:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg backup -d <replaceable>/path/to/pkg.sql</replaceable></userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="pkgng-clean">
More information about the svn-doc-head
mailing list