Backing up Cygwin

DePriest, Jason R. jrdepriest@ftb.com
Fri Jul 11 16:59:00 GMT 2003


Did you also back up and restore the "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions"
registry key?

-Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luciano [mailto:lucianoav@gmx.net] 
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:10 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Backing up Cygwin
> 
> 
> Suppose I back up my entire Cygwin directory, format the disk, 
> reinstall Windows and restore Cygwin. It doesn't work. Why not? 
> Running Setup again then hunt and pecking very specific files from 
> the backup to the new installation is quite annoying. What else does 
> Setup copy/install and where?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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> Luciano ES
> <lucianoav@ggmmxx.nneett>
> Santos, SP - Brasil
> 
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