On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 12:11:06 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
Cygwin is 'just a .dll' as far as windows is concerned. I think you can find bundled versions of just the rsync, ssh, and sshd executables with the cygwin dll, maybe even wrapped in a windows installer if you have something against the full cygwin setup.
CWRsync is one. We use it for backing up our lightning detector and weather stations (both of which run on Windows for various reasons; in the lightning detector case, drivers for the Boltek board are, as far as I know, Windows-only), where we only want changes to be backed up (in trees with many hundreds if not thousands of small to medium-sized files), and from a server cron.... just exactly what rsync was designed to do. It works quite well. A full transfer using smbclient takes hours and loads down the controller PC's; rsync takes a few tens of seconds nightly and presents little load.