Follow-up question for Corinna or anyone who might know the answer: > >On Apr 1 03:26, Robert Miles wrote: > > >>Can I move the entire Cygwin and Cygwin64 directory trees to one > > >>of the nearly empty drives, without losing the extra packages I've > > >>already downloaded and the files I've created? > > > > > >Robocopy allows to copy an entire Cygwin tree while keeping all > > >permissions intact. I had good luck with something along the > > >lines of > > > > > > robocopy C:\cygwin64 D:\cygwin64 /e /purge /z /copyall /sl . . . With an added comment that > I *did* move Cygwin installations using > robocopy and the above works for me. In an elevated shell.
I recently needed to move a Cygwin installation, about 6 GB, to another drive accessible only on a network file system. Due to the number of files, copying everything would have taken a week or more, because everything slows down when the number of files increases. The solution I ultimately took was not the best. I compressed everything into a single *.7z (7-zip) archive, moved the single archive across the network, and uncompressed the *.7z archive on the target machine. Although the total time was much, much faster (maybe 5 or 6 hours, including 30 minutes to uncompress the archive), all my file permissions were set to the same value, regardless of what they had been previously, and any extended attributes were lost entirely. I didn't like it, but I had no realistic alternative. For future resource, what is the best way to archive a Cygwin installation into a single file, which will preserve all file properties and permissions, so that the archive can be transferred to another location? (For the sake of clarity, presume that Cygwin does NOT exist in the target location, so a non-Cygwin tool must be used to expand the archive.) Thanks in advance. -- 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
