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Subject: Re: no db after crash; portmaster unhappy
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:45:44 -0400
Robert Huff wrote:

> 
> 	One of my machines crashed this morning, and
> lost /usr/ports/db
> - the directory and everything in it.
> 	Portmaster refuses to run.
> 	How do I re-create that information?
> 
IIRC there's a backup under /var/backups made by the period scripts.