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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:19:36 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What to backup in cygwin installation
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:42:12AM +0200, Andrew Markebo wrote:
>/ "Thomas V. Fischer" <tvfischer_l AT worldonline DOT fr> wrote:
>| Can anyone suggest to me a good backup practice (ie what to bakcup) for
>| Cygwin?
>
>c:\cygwin (or where you installed it) and the keys that are put into
>the registry.. If you can't 'afford' downloading it again.

Don't backup the registry.  The.  Registry.  Is.  Going. Away.

Instead, save the output from "mount -m" in a .bat file.  mount is your
friend.  Really it is.

cgf

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