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Date: | Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:44:50 -0500 |
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Subject: | Re: Best way to backup 1.5 to go to 1.7 |
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If you have both 1.5 & 1.7, they can sorta co-exist. Leave your 1.5 system alone. Now crate & download 1.7 into a new node. (e.g./cygwinII). Just make sure everything is separate, include your update nodes and create a new "start" icon for 1.7 only. You might want to enforce separate executions of 1.5 & 1.7 I did this for the several months before switch-over and it worked perfectly. If your machine is shared amoung users, them you will have to work that out. My was a single-user system. Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2010/1/21 Brian Keener: > >> I want to upgrade to 1.7 but would like to get a backup of the full 1.5 >> install before hand. I know in the past just doing copies some files >> didn't or couldn't get copied. Also in the unix world seems as though >> I recall tar and cpio have difference in terms of what they will and >> won't backup. >> >> What the best way to get a good copy of my 1.5 in case I need/want to >> get it back. >> > > I have made a backup of 1.5 by 7-Zipping the entire directory and also > backup the "mount v2" tree of "Cygnus Solutions" in the registry. I > have had problems upgrading to 1.7 on one pc and could successfully > restore my 1.5 installation. > > Regards, > Frank > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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