pkg database backup and restore
- From: DW <spock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:29:54 -0400
Hello,
Can anyone provide some practical insight into best methods of backing up and restoring package databases?
Inside of /var/db there are 2 directories:
/var/db/ports
and
/var/db/pkg
/var/db/ports I pretty much understand; that seems to simply be the config options saved from when a port is installed. ok.
/var/db/pkg contains:
pkgdb.db
and a subdirectory for every port installed.
If part of a normal backup routine, we are regularly backing up /var/db/pkg, how can we best use that backup in a scenario in which a machine needs to be rebuilt from scratch, and we're trying to save time going through and doing a portinstall on everything we can remember that should be installed? (or alternatively taking a backup of the results from a periodic "pkg_info > installed_packages.txt" and painstakenly going through the list and reinstalling everything one-by-one).
Essentially, we're just looking for a streamlined approach to restoring the installed ports when we need to rebuild a machine.
Thanks,
DW
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