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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
>
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