Lost /var/db/pkg

William Orr will at worrbase.com
Thu Jun 14 14:59:12 UTC 2012


Thanks, it looks like I had a copy from May in there that was fairly
accurate!
On Jun 13, 2012 5:03 PM, "Warren Block" <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>  On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr <will at worrbase.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing
>>> /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been
>>> backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this
>>> happened). Is there a way I can restore it, or at least manually add
>>> entries I know for sure about?
>>>
>>
>> look in /var/db/pkgdb.bak.tbz
>>
>              ^^^
> ITYM /var/backups/pkgdb.bak.tbz.
>


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