Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDD62@EX-LONDON> From: Vince Hoffman To: "'Luciano'" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Backing up Cygwin Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:17:59 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" just the mount entries to save your mount entries start a windows command prompt (comman.com or cmd.exe depending on your windows version)# cd c:\cygwin\bin run mount -m > mounts.bat then backup the mounts.bat file along with the rest. when you have rinstalled and restored cd c:\cygwin\bin and run mounts.bat obviously replace c:\cygwin with whereever you have installed cygwin, and this assumes you are restoreing it to the same path as it was originaly installed. if you arent then edit the paths in th .bat file. > -----Original Message----- > From: Luciano [mailto:lucianoav AT gmx DOT net] > Sent: 11 July 2003 17:10 > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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, > > -- > Luciano ES > > Santos, SP - Brasil > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/