> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Charles Plager
> missing a perl dll and that re-installing would help). After
> all of this, I said "**** it" and started a new cygwin installation.
>
> My question now is how do I backup up my cygwin
> installation. If I make a copy of all of c:\cygwin, is it
> good enough to just delete the current c:\cygwin directory
> and restore the backup?
That'll work more-or-less fine, although I can think of a couple of other
places where cygwin keeps persistent state that you'd probably want to
backup at the same time:
1) The download directory where the package setup utility stores its records
of what's where and all its downloaded packages.
2) The cygwin registry entries under HKCU/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin
and HKLM/......etc.....
If you were to backup a consistent set of those, a simple restore should
get everything back exactly how it was.
cheers,
DaveK
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