Howdy... I have searched the archives, and even read what has been posted on the site regarding a Win32 port of rsync. Though I have found a problem with everything. The URLs for building your own, or downloading the compiled binaries for the Win32 platform are no longer valid. Therein the problem lies, as the information is outdated, and still easily available on the site publicly. I imagine there are a few, and I mean a spare few, that are still using Windows 95, but most have moved onto either Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows .NET, but not necessarily to Unix, Linux, Solaris, AIX, or other non-Microsoft platform. I have downloaded the source code, and though I have not had a chance in which to look over it thoroughly, I hope to eventually develop enough familiarity so that I can port it over to the Win32, Win64, and .NET platforms. I know some of you may think that I am off my rocker when I mention the Win64 platform, but what you don't know is that Microsoft now has a 64-bit version of Windows XP, which can address 16 terabytes (18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes) of memory. I am just not sure if they have released it yet for purchase, but I do have authorized access to it, along with its support/diagnostic utilities. Now here is my question/suggestion... What is the current interest in a port of rsync to the Microsoft Windows platform? Is anyone interested in helping port rsync to the Microsoft Windows platform? I have a currently active Universal MSDN subscription, which includes Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise, and Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect, and would be willing to provide any resources I have to this project if there is enough interest. In addition to this, I also have the Catalyst SocketTools Enterprise Edition library, should it be needed. For those who are interested, I would prefer an off-list reply, otherwise I may miss the message as it passes through my e-mail filters, and is placed in a different folder. Richard -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
We use Rsync on NT very intensively. In fact, right now I backup about 25 servers across WAN-links with the lates version of Rsync. You can compile it yourself to a Win32 binary by using the incredible Cygwin utilities (www.cygwin.com). Rgds, Bart Coninckx Network Administrator CNE, ASE ************************************* Watco ICT Services Lilsedijk 19 B-2340 Beerse Belgium e-mail: bart.coninckx@sita.be Tel: + 32 (0) 14 60 99 42 Fax: + 32 (0) 14 62 41 47 ************************************* <wolfe-mcse@ev1.n et> To: <rsync@lists.samba.org> Sent by: cc: rsync-admin@lists Subject: Win32 Version? .samba.org 10/25/2002 07:27 Howdy... I have searched the archives, and even read what has been posted on the site regarding a Win32 port of rsync. Though I have found a problem with everything. The URLs for building your own, or downloading the compiled binaries for the Win32 platform are no longer valid. Therein the problem lies, as the information is outdated, and still easily available on the site publicly. I imagine there are a few, and I mean a spare few, that are still using Windows 95, but most have moved onto either Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows .NET, but not necessarily to Unix, Linux, Solaris, AIX, or other non-Microsoft platform. I have downloaded the source code, and though I have not had a chance in which to look over it thoroughly, I hope to eventually develop enough familiarity so that I can port it over to the Win32, Win64, and .NET platforms. I know some of you may think that I am off my rocker when I mention the Win64 platform, but what you don't know is that Microsoft now has a 64-bit version of Windows XP, which can address 16 terabytes (18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes) of memory. I am just not sure if they have released it yet for purchase, but I do have authorized access to it, along with its support/diagnostic utilities. Now here is my question/suggestion... What is the current interest in a port of rsync to the Microsoft Windows platform? Is anyone interested in helping port rsync to the Microsoft Windows platform? I have a currently active Universal MSDN subscription, which includes Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise, and Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect, and would be willing to provide any resources I have to this project if there is enough interest. In addition to this, I also have the Catalyst SocketTools Enterprise Edition library, should it be needed. For those who are interested, I would prefer an off-list reply, otherwise I may miss the message as it passes through my e-mail filters, and is placed in a different folder. Richard
On Friday 25 Oct 02, wolfe-mcse@ev1.net writes:> Howdy... > > > I have searched the archives, and even read what has been posted on the site > regarding a Win32 port of rsync. Though I have found a problem with > everything. The URLs for building your own, or downloading the compiled > binaries for the Win32 platform are no longer valid. Therein the problem > lies, as the information is outdated, and still easily available on the site > publicly.If you give precise details, maybe the rsync.samba.org maintainer(s) can repair the information.> What is the current interest in a port of rsync to the Microsoft Windows > platform? > > Is anyone interested in helping port rsync to the Microsoft Windows > platform?There is already a "Cygwin" port of rsync. In fact you can download rsync along with Cygwin from <http://cygwin.com/>. There is at least one "minimalist" distribution that includes only rsync, ssh and cygwin1.dll (and sources, of course) so you can skip all the other brilliant stuff that comes with a "default" Cygwin setup. However, there are problems with the Cygwin "port". Cygwin does not support large files (> 2GB). Cygwin will not attempt to support new versions of Microsoft Windows until they are officially released. Moreover, when the new Windows *is* released, updating Cygwin will depend on the contributions of volunteers. (Like yourself, perhaps?) I believe that a true "native" Windows port (i.e., one that does not require the UNIX emulation layer that Cygwin provides) would be quite difficult. Hope this answers some of your questions. Regards, David
Hi!!!! I have used the rsync.exe (precompiled binary) from the net. I installed rsync as service in Windows NT server using SRVANY and INSTSRV. Further whenever i logoff and logon again, and go to services windows, I still see RSYNC service as running. (whereas as soon as i logoff, the rsync daemon on this server stops working.) I checked the application (rsync.exe) using TASK Manager... it was running prior to logging off, but is not running after I logoff and logon again. I have analysed it like: whenever I log off, all the applications are also closed, hence closing rsync.exe as well., and if I can prevent this application to be closed when I log off, I am done. Please Suggest....!!!!! Thanks Nitin Agarwal wolfe-mcse@ev1.net wrote:> Howdy... > > I am going to take a stab at this in regards to the problems that you are > experiencing. > > I am going under the presumption that the source code was compiled to an EXE > using the GNU-WIN compiler. This is the same source code that is used for > Unix, Linux, or any one of number of different platforms, and was designed > to be platform independent. > > Under that presumption, the EXE is NOT a Windows Service, as it makes no > calls to the Windows API, whereby it registers itself as a service. > Otherwise, it would be platform specific, and thereby could not be compiled > on a different platform without modification. > > I am not sure how you are determining that rsync is still running, but it > would be my guess that you are logging into the machine locally, and > checking in that manner. If this is the case, there are utilities that are > much better at checking remote processes that are not furnished by > Microsoft. > > Richard
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