Can you clone entire cygwin setup from one pc to another

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Nov 13 11:24:00 GMT 2009


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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