I love rsync, use it for deployment all the time. However, it is quite a pain to set it up for Windows. All the Windows rsync ports I know of run on top of Cygw

I love rsync, use it for deployment all the time. However, it is quite a pain to set it up for Windows. All the Windows rsync ports I know of run on top of Cygwin and Cygwin changes the permissions of the files to the Windows equivalent of 000 all the time. It is possible to get around this but not entirely straightforward. I'm seriously considering writing a step-by-step quick guide for setting up an rsync daemon on Windows as it is not trivial at all and it might save some time for other people.