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 ;)
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.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Rudi Ahlersrudiahlers@gmail.com 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 ;)
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Seems like Delacopy might be a better solution for you (http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp). I have no experience with it, but the feature list looks promising.
Hi!
As Lucian said, DeltaCopy IS rsync on windows. If you download that it comes with two or three cygwin dll's, an ssh binary and the rsync binary for windows. DeltaCopy is just a visual front end (GUI) some guy made for the windows cygwin port of rsync but I don't like it but it has normal rsync bundled in there so that's your answer, that is rsync.
You can of course look into the full cygwin system which allows you have a Linux terminal like environment on a windows system; http://www.cygwin.com/
James ;)
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Lucian@lastdot.orglucian@lastdot.org wrote:
Seems like Delacopy might be a better solution for you (http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp). I have no experience with it, but the feature list looks promising. _______________________________________________
I had a look @ Deltacopy as well, but see that it needs a client & server to run. I'm looking for something that doesn't need that kind of setup, but purely a client which just runs, and has the option to connect to FTP / sFTP / SSH / Network shares (so it works at the office on other Windows PC's as well) / local USB devices
" had a look @ Deltacopy as well, but see that it needs a client & server to run"
No, have a look in the folder where you installed it, it is rsync! DeltaCopy is a visual front end someone made for rsync for windows. Look in the folder it IS rsync.
James ;)
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Rudi Ahlersrudiahlers@gmail.com 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.
Cygwin allows you to run rsync in Windows. Cygwin allows you to use many if not all GNU tools such as ssh, bash... There are of course minor issues due to the differences in the FAT/NTFS vs. ext file systems, most of which are masked by Cygwin.
Brett
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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&... r+&aqi=g10
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=rsync+for+windows+down... q=rsync+&aqi=g10
Or not on the google results, but my favorite: http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe
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. [...]
SyncToy works well for me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jerry Franz jfranz@freerun.com wrote:
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. [...]
SyncToy works well for me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy
-- Benjamin Franz _______________________________________________
thanx all, I have downloaded & tested all, but wasn't as happy with them. I found something called RichCopy on one of the RoboCopy websites, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx
which is even better and works very easy.
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