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Re: Backing up cygwin


On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:56:11PM +0000, Luciano wrote:
> >Registry keys! Of course. Windows programmers can't live without good
> >old hard-to-backup-and-restore Registry keys. >>:-(
>
> Um, it's the mount table.  Use mount -m to backup your mounts.  That is
> why it was designed.
>
> cgf

Sorry, but not quite.  There are some settings there besides mounts,
notably "heap_chunk_in_mb" and "Program Options".  Until there's a
command-line tool to access those (well, regtool, of course, but that's
more of a hack), backing up the registry is the only choice.
	Igor
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