GPL - Backup of current instalation

Hi all, Sometime ago, I posted the question of what would be the best way to back up one's current installation of GPL, so that, in the event of a HDD crash, an upgrade or reformatting, etc., you wouldn't have to hunt around for all your patches, mods, profiles, etc. Someone suggested I just copy my entire sierra\gpl\ directory to CD-R, and then copy it back to the HDD...however, do you need a registry program or something that would make the necessary registry changes for the game to work (like they do for some warez games)? Any help would be greatly appreciated...I thought I'd do it to CDR-W to be able to keep making a back-up of GPL everytime I hit upon a configuration I like. Perhaps one the most industrious RAS readers can develop an app to do just this... Thanks again, L.S.

You don't really need to worry about registry settings. If you need to do a reinstall from scratch just install GPL from the original CD (this will establish the necessary registry settings) then copy your backed-up files into the GPL directory. "Luis Soto" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Hi all, > Sometime ago, I posted the question of what would be the best way to backup > one's current installation of GPL, so that, in the event of a HDD crash,an > upgrade or reformatting, etc., you wouldn't have to hunt around for allyour

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> patches, mods, profiles, etc. Someone suggested I just copy my entire > sierra\gpl\ directory to CD-R, and then copy it back to the HDD...however, > do you need a registry program or something that would make the necessary > registry changes for the game to work (like they do for some warez games)? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated...I thought I'd do it to CDR-W to be > able to keep making a back-up of GPL everytime I hit upon a configuration

I > like. Perhaps one the most industrious RAS readers can develop an app todo > just this... > > Thanks again, > L.S. > >

There's really nothing important that GPL puts in the registry, in any case. I've copied my GPL installation to at least two different machines without running the install or anything - no problems. Rick

On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:26:44 -0500, "Luis Soto" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Hi all, >Sometime ago, I posted the question of what would be the best way to back up >one's current installation of GPL, so that, in the event of a HDD crash, an >upgrade or reformatting, etc., you wouldn't have to hunt around for all your >patches, mods, profiles, etc. Someone suggested I just copy my entire >sierra\gpl\ directory to CD-R, and then copy it back to the HDD...however, >do you need a registry program or something that would make the necessary >registry changes for the game to work (like they do for some warez games)?

It's really simple, just backup your sierra\gpl map to a CD, and when you have to reinstall everything, just do a fresh install of the original GPL cd and copy your sierra\gpl map over the fresh installed sierra\gpl map. Thanks for reminding me to make a backup of my sierra\gpl map by the way, it would go crazy if I had to reinstalled all those patches and graphic updates... gonna backup right away now.. :) Andre

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>Any help would be greatly appreciated...I thought I'd do it to CDR-W to be >able to keep making a back-up of GPL everytime I hit upon a configuration I >like. Perhaps one the most industrious RAS readers can develop an app to do >just this... > >Thanks again, >L.S. >

or copy the mapped gpl and then install over it? (vise versa) Charlie "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:26:44 -0500, "Luis Soto" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >Hi all, > >Sometime ago, I posted the question of what would be the best way to backup > >one's current installation of GPL, so that, in the event of a HDD crash,an > >upgrade or reformatting, etc., you wouldn't have to hunt around for allyour > >patches, mods, profiles, etc. Someone suggested I just copy my entire > >sierra\gpl\ directory to CD-R, and then copy it back to theHDD...however, > >do you need a registry program or something that would make the necessary > >registry changes for the game to work (like they do for some warezgames)?

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> > It's really simple, just backup your sierra\gpl map to a CD, and when > you have to reinstall everything, just do a fresh install of the > original GPL cd and copy your sierra\gpl map over the fresh installed > sierra\gpl map. > Thanks for reminding me to make a backup of my sierra\gpl map by the > way, it would go crazy if I had to reinstalled all those patches and > graphic updates... gonna backup right away now.. :) > > Andre > > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated...I thought I'd do it to CDR-W to

be > >able to keep making a back-up of GPL everytime I hit upon a configurationI > >like. Perhaps one the most industrious RAS readers can develop an app todo

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> >just this... > > > >Thanks again, > >L.S. > > > >