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Too bad there’s no rsync for windows

• ptman 8y ago
  WSL
• LinuxBender 8y ago
  Cygwin provides rsync, sftp and lftp for windows.
  • user9182031 8y ago
    Cygwin just feels "heavy" when all I want is rsync. Without any package management (that I'm aware of) I can't just install rsync and whatever other dependencies it has, I have to put hunderds? more binaries on my system.
    • LinuxBender 8y ago
      There is also a linux subsystem for windows 10 which I have never used. Perhaps someone can say if that has rsync. [ edit ] if that and cygwin are too heavy, you could request the samba team create a posix windows build of rsync. They had one long ago, but stopped supporting it. That would be a single binary. I suspect they will push back.
      • pletnes 8y ago
        It does.
      • user9182031 8y ago
        This is even heavier. It's a full blown Ubuntu install.
      • user9182031 8y ago
        After a bit of Googling, it looks a company has complied and packged rsync for Windows at a cost of $19 per license @ https://www.itefix.net/cwrsync https://www.itefix.net/cwrsync I found a Github repo with an older (2017) version of cwRsync that may be from before it went behind a paywall @ https://github.com/billyc/cwrsync-installer https://github.com/billyc/cwrsync-installer
    • pnutjam 8y ago
      Check out MobaXterm. It's free as in beer, and seems to wrap up cygwin and x in one console. It's my go to putty replacement. You can run a local console and rsync directly from your window drives (/drives)
• pnutjam 8y ago
  hmm... works fine in my mobaxterm window.
• e12e 8y ago
  Msys2 has rsync? And windows has ssh/sshd? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati... https://heejune.me/2018/08/02/setup-rsync-server-over-ssh-on-windows-server-2012-easy-way/ https://heejune.me/2018/08/02/setup-rsync-server-over-ssh-on...