<sorry if this is OT for the list> On Thu 1/26/06 17:57 GMT "Dave Korn" wrote: --snip > I made the terrible mistake of trying to use M$ migwiz.exe to > recover my old cygwin installation from a dead machine's drive to a > new one. > > I thought it might be just a simple archiver that would conveniently > help move all my stuff across without losing ACLs and so on.
I use ntbackup (backing up to a file), it preserves the DACL, owner and posix group. I have a wrapper bash script for ntbackup , so I can call it from with in an ssh session. If your moving to a new domain, you can do all sorts of DACL, owner, and posix group, (recursive) edits with "setacl": http://setacl.sourceforge.net/html/examples.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
