[CentOS] OT: looking for a rsync equivalent for Windows platforms
Jason Pyeron
jpyeron at pdinc.us
Sat Jun 6 16:05:54 UTC 2009
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 4:39
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] OT: looking for a rsync equivalent for
> Windows platforms
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of a good & free rsync type program for
> Windows platforms? Like most of us, I need to work on both
How about rsync?
> Windows & Linux environments, and would like to sync some
> data (music, videos, photos, documents, thunderbird profiles,
> FF bookmarks, etc) between a USB HDD, my Linux (CentOS + KDE)
> PC, and Windows Laptop at the office.
>
> I found a program called Toucan (which also has a portable
> version) but it doesn't seem to work as well as rsync. When I
> tell it to "sync (copy)" or "sync (mirror)" file between the
> USB HDD, or even my Linux PC via the LAN, it copies every
> single file, every time. So it's not very efficient. Their
> forums doesn't have much help on this matter, and I just know
> from experience that help here is much better ;)
But http://www.samba.org/rsync/lists.html is a better mailing list to ask.
Yes but google would have been faster.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=rsync+for+windows&aq=0&oq=rsync+fo
r+&aqi=g10
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=rsync+for+windows+download&aq=1e&o
q=rsync+&aqi=g10
Or not on the google results, but my favorite: http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe
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