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Reword the section about pkg backups to reflect that they are enabled by default now.

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Brad Davis 2015-05-12 14:24:05 +00:00
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</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">