On Nov 11, 2014, at 5:47 AM, Habermann, David (D) <dahaberm...@dow.com> wrote:
> I also like having everything stored under one main directory (c:\cygwin) for > ease of backup Why would you back up all of c:\cygwin? Most of it is downloaded from the Internet, and this is easily reinstalled from your cached download. (I’m assuming you keep setup.exe and its download tree on a network drive somewhere.) My starting point for backup on Unix boxes is to exclude everything except /etc, /home and /usr/local. Then maybe add a few choice things under /var. Everything else can be reinstalled. Since I’m already cherry-picking what to back up, it doesn’t matter to me that /home might be somewhere physically different than /usr. c:\Users should be part of your backups anyway. > and ease of identification of all cygwin-involved files for our virus and our > application whitelisting systems. Do you really have executables in $HOME/bin that won’t run unless whitelisted? Does your security software actually ban programs in %HOMEPATH%? I can see the need to smack the AV with a clue-bat occasionally for some things under /usr, if only to address false positives. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
