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<typo fs:xx-large; fw:bold>Cygwin: Salvation on Windows</typo>
====== Intro: Installation ======
Cygwin provides a rather unique, and sometimes inconvenient, mechanism for installation.  A small network-install executable is provided, which consults online repositories for downloads of installation artifacts.  The install executable also relies on locally-written meta-data to keep track of the entire installation footprint.

====== Backup Client-Side Agent ======
Cygwin makes a particularly powerful solution for a client-side agent in providing central command-n-control with a centralized backup/archival system.  Here are some details around how Albert Lea Data has devised such a solution.

===== Installation =====
  * Create an administrative user for the backup system identity to be used, log in as that user
  * Acquire the ZIP archive to the client machine
  * Extract the contents of the ZIP archive to a working location
  * Move the ''cygwin64'' folder extracted from the ZIP archive to suitable destination (''d:\\'' recommended)
  * Edit the ''.reg'' files extracted from the ZIP archive to ensure path references are corrected
  * Right-click on each ''.reg'' file and 

===== Packaging & Ugrading =====
This is the recipe for how the client-side agent footprint is bundled, and how to go about upgrading it.

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