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Re: Can you clone entire cygwin setup from one pc to another
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:11:15 +0100
- Subject: Re: Can you clone entire cygwin setup from one pc to another
- References: <26333733.post@talk.nabble.com> <26333860.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Nov 13 01:44, aputerguy wrote:
>
> I guess the other thing to worry about would be ACL entries.
> If there are any, I could solve that with getfacl/setfacl assuming that the
> ACL changes were addressable by getfacl/setfacl.
> And if not I could always use 'subinacl' to just clone the entire ACL
> structure of the C:\cygwin tree.
For exakt cloning including ACLs, I would suggest to use robocopy. Yes,
it's a native tool, but it's sort of a swiss army knife to do exactly
that job. You don't need to copy the registry entries.
Corinna
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