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Re: What to backup in cygwin installation
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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