rsync on Windows 2000?
cbarratt at users.sourceforge.net
cbarratt at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Aug 2 15:28:31 EST 2003
"John E. Malmberg" writes:
> What is the status of rsync on Windows 2000?
>
> I was looking to install it on my test system, and the download
> directory has a readme file that says I need the cygnus gnu-win32 library.
>
> The link refers me to the index page for cygnus, with no way to get to a
> download area. A google search shows many mirrors of the download
> directory. All I have checked are completely blank.
>
> I will confess that I have only been lightly browsing the mailing list
> traffic, so I may have missed something.
There is a pre-packaged rsync-2.5.6 (with a couple of patches),
together with a minimal set of cygwin libraries at
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net
It also includes cygrunsrv that allows you to run rsyncd as a service.
Follow the "Code" link and download the cygwin-rsyncd zip file.
Craig
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