> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at 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&aq=0&oq=rsync+fo r+&aqi=g10 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=rsync+for+windows+download&aq=1e&o q=rsync+&aqi=g10 Or not on the google results, but my favorite: http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe