This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Backing up my Cygwin installation
- From: Charles Plager <cplager+cygwin at physics dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Cygwin Mailing list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:31:20 -0600
- Subject: Backing up my Cygwin installation
Hello,
I unintentionally updated perl to 5.8.2 from 5.8.1. After having done
this, Tk didn't work anymore. I tried using the cygwin setup tool to
revert perl versions, but after trying all of the 5.8.x versions,
nothing helped. After much messing around, I seemed to have messed up
my installation well enough that I couldn't get any version of perl to
install correctly (It kept telling me that it was 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?
Thanks,
Charles
--
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/