rsync - Oct 2003 - Rsync for Windows on http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php

Hi to all on the Rsync mailing list.

I noticed some posts back on the 25th September about my Rsync page 
(http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php). There were questions regarding 
it's suitability, why it was there, etc, and how I did not conform to 
the GPL.

I have since sought advice from the Rsync administrators, who have 
advised me with regards to the GPL, etc.

The page has been updated accordingly, and now offers the Source Code as 
per the GPL requirements. It no longer offers the Cygwin code - people 
will have to follow the links to the site.

The code is for real and will not kill your machine. I made it available 
as I could not find a Windows executable version when I had a need to 
backup my families PCs. I know Rsync comes as part of Cygwin, but I 
needed an external way to run the Rsync code from an automatic script, 
in the background, without invoking Cygwin. If anyone knows a better way 
of running Rsync to backup a Windows D:\ Drive without a batch, I would 
appreciate the feedback.

If anyone has tried my EXE file on platforms other than Win2k Pro, I 
would be interested to hear how you got on.

Regards from England   :)


Gary Myers

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Gary Myers wrote:

| The page has been updated accordingly, and now offers the Source Code
|  as per the GPL requirements. It no longer offers the Cygwin code -
| people will have to follow the links to the site.

If people should install Cygwin anyway (it is the better coiche, IMHO)
why giving them an exe instead of the simlpe phrase: "while yuo are
installing CygWin, just remember to select Net/rsync package and, maybe
Net/openssh".
Cygwin installer is easy, and if you're using it anyway it seems crazy
to me to get the executable from a different method...

Moreover if it is setup-installed it is automatically updated to latest
version on each setup.exe launch...

If the point is that your exe has better patches" applied I'm very
willing to cooperate to create a "better CygWin rsync package"...

| I know Rsync comes as part of Cygwin, but I needed an external way to
|  run the Rsync code from an automatic script, in the background,
| without invoking Cygwin. If anyone knows a better way of running
| Rsync to backup a Windows D:\ Drive without a batch, I would
| appreciate the feedback.

Your exe *is* a cygwin exe just as the official package is, I don't
undesrtand the problem ?_?

| Regards from England   :)

Regards =)

| When installing the Cygwin packages, remember to choose a suitable
| text editor (as one is not install by default). The email package
| 'Pine' contains the more than suitable 'Pico' for basic text
editing.
|
I may suggest the Editor "nano" package also: it is a better editor,
it
is 100% similiar to pico, the package is far smaller (as it is only the
editor and not a mail reader).

BTW: do you know that "your" rsync is 620Kb nistead of 200Kb because
you
didn't "strip" it, yup?

- --
Lapo 'Raist' Luchini
lapo@lapo.it (PGP & X.509 keys available)
http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)
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I would like to take this opportunity to invite all parties interested
to join me and other users of rsync to #rsync on irc. I am unamware of
an existing channel that rsync users and developers use to exchange
ideas and issues in real time. I hope to see you all there.

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 07:32, Gary Myers wrote:
> Hi to all on the Rsync mailing list.
> 
> I noticed some posts back on the 25th September about my Rsync page 
> (http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php). There were questions regarding 
> it's suitability, why it was there, etc, and how I did not conform to 
> the GPL.
> 
> I have since sought advice from the Rsync administrators, who have 
> advised me with regards to the GPL, etc.
> 
> The page has been updated accordingly, and now offers the Source Code as 
> per the GPL requirements. It no longer offers the Cygwin code - people 
> will have to follow the links to the site.
> 
> The code is for real and will not kill your machine. I made it available 
> as I could not find a Windows executable version when I had a need to 
> backup my families PCs. I know Rsync comes as part of Cygwin, but I 
> needed an external way to run the Rsync code from an automatic script, 
> in the background, without invoking Cygwin. If anyone knows a better way 
> of running Rsync to backup a Windows D:\ Drive without a batch, I would 
> appreciate the feedback.
> 
> If anyone has tried my EXE file on platforms other than Win2k Pro, I 
> would be interested to hear how you got on.
> 
> Regards from England   :)
> 
> 
> Gary Myers
-- 
Clint Boggio <clint.boggio@hoganhardwoods.com>
Hogan Hardwoods & Moulding

I do apologize for my lack of clarification. That server/network for
rync collaboration is freenode.net 

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 09:00, Josh Endries wrote:
> Clint Boggio wrote:
> > I would like to take this opportunity to invite all parties interested
> > to join me and other users of rsync to #rsync on irc. I am unamware of
> > an existing channel that rsync users and developers use to exchange
> > ideas and issues in real time. I hope to see you all there.
> 
> You may want to enlighten us as to which IRC server/network you plan on 
> collaborating on (there are probably 100+ networks out there). I would 
> recommend freenode.net if you haven't chosen one yet, since it hosts 
> channels for many other projects as well. I think freenode used to be 
> the openprojects.net network.
-- 
Clint Boggio <clint.boggio@hoganhardwoods.com>
Hogan Hardwoods & Moulding

> The code is for real and will not kill your machine. I made it available
> as I could not find a Windows executable version when I had a need to
> backup my families PCs. I know Rsync comes as part of Cygwin, but I
> needed an external way to run the Rsync code from an automatic script,
> in the background, without invoking Cygwin. If anyone knows a better way
> of running Rsync to backup a Windows D:\ Drive without a batch, I would
> appreciate the feedback.
I'm a little confused as to what your difficulty was - you can pass a shell
command to cygwin when invoking it; which thus makes it quite possible to
simply batch automate cygwin tasks from the win32 environment.  I've run a
few test rsync backups from a Win2K Pro environment that way myself.

-J