Windows client

[Doug Lochart]

My experience working with a Windows client with a Windows Server has not
been all that great.  In most cases it is not the client itself it is just
the typical pain that you experience when trying to run an open source
product on Windows.  Our biggest issues with using the windows client and
server combination was with fragmentation.  This is nothing to do with rsync
it is NTFS.  To make it clear we were using CwRsync which is merely a nice
package of minimal cygwin and rsync.  We had good success running the client
with a Linux server.  The only issues (which were big ones) was dealing with
the whole windows ACLs and policies.  But to save the data from a crash I
think that is a pain worth enduring.

As to your specific problem I have never seen that before and we routinely
worked with files in the 10GIG plus category.

best of luck

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Brad Farrell <brad.farrell at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I am using the current installation of cygwin on the server end and on
> about
> 30 client machines - appears to be a 2.x version of rsync.  All appears to
> be working fine with the exception of files in the 9GB+ range in size - I
> keep getting an error relating to the files not being the same - I don't
> have the exact message handy.  I've been looking for a windows version of
> rsync 3.x - probably have to compile it directly.
>
> B
>
>
> > I know you guys hate questions like this, but has anyone had experience
> > with a particular Windows client they would endorse?
> >
> > I need to sync some Windows boxen.  I'm just looking for someone to
> > tell
> > me they're using X and happy.
>
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