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 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:31:20 -0600 From: Charles Plager Subject: Backing up my Cygwin installation To: Cygwin Mailing list Message-id: <401A94E8.6070001@physics.ucla.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 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/