[CentOS] OT: looking for a rsync equivalent for Windows platforms

Sat Jun 6 08:50:39 UTC 2009
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

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.