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.