CentOS - Jun 2009 - 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 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 ;)

-- 
Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux Hosting
Web: http://www.SoftDux.com
Office: 087 805 9573
Cell: 082 554 7532

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 Ahlers<rudiahlers at 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 ;)
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Rudi Ahlers
> CEO, SoftDux Hosting
> Web: http://www.SoftDux.com
> Office: 087 805 9573
> Cell: 082 554 7532
> _______________________________________________
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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.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers<rudiahlers at 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 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

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