Rsync from Windows to Windows

Max Bowsher maxb at ukf.net
Fri Oct 4 11:33:00 EST 2002


Bruno Ferreira wrote:
> At 14:32 04-10-2002 +0530, you wrote:
>> Hi..
>> Can anybody please help me in configuring RSYNC to copy files from
>> WINDOWS NT to WINDOWS NT
> 
>          Here's one way, there's always some others:
> 
> 
>          Create a share in each machine, one readable from the source
> one and one read/writable on the destination one.

By doing this you lose any benefit from rsyncs partial-update algorithm.

You must either use ssh or an rsync daemon to get the benefits of this.

rsync on Windows requires Cygwin.

Max.



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