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Re: Backing up cygwin


Shankar Unni wrote:

Rolf Campbell wrote:

The reason why the mount table cannot be stored in a file is: where would this file be located?

In the same directory as cygwin1.dll, of course. Or a path relative to it. That's easy to find, and doesn't have to be written in portable POSIX-y code - stuff at that level in cygwin1.dll is pretty much all native Windows code anyway.


The real problem is that the danger of inadvertent corruption of the mount table is greatly increased if it's a naked text file like that..

Anyway, pointless discussion. It's also quite easy to dump out the entire registry subset for "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin", and restore that as needed.

Or crontab a mont -m > /etc/mnttab.




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