[vox-tech] rsync for Windows?

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Tue Mar 1 10:18:37 PST 2011


Funny, that's what I used too for all sorts of scheduled and unscheduled
local and remote copying.

As far as rsync I believe cygwin is the only way to get it on windows.

Enjoy,
Alex

On 03/01/2011 12:05 AM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
> When I was mainly using Windows, I used a program called "SyncBack" to
> manage all of my backup operations. It is available for download from:
> 
> http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
> 
> I never tried to do anything too fancy, primarily I used it to have an
> external HDD mirror my laptop's HDD. But it seemed like a fairly
> powerful piece of freeware that was intuitive and ran fast. If you
> need a backup utility for Windows, I would definitely check it out.
> 
> thomas
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
>> I thought at one point I saw rsync for Windows. I forget where I saw
>> it and the results I am getting from Google are a little confusing.
>> Who is using what? Windows of course.
>>
>> brian
>> --
>> Brian Lavender
>> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>>
>> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
>> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
>> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
>>
>> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
>> The 1980 Turing award lecture



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