Rudi Ahlers wrote:
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 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 ;)
robocopy is supposed to be pretty good for windows to windows incremental copies, eithe rnetworked or local.
there's plenty of rsync ports to windows, including cygwin, msys, etc.