backup for /var/db/ports

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 17 04:38:13 UTC 2011


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.


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