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I never had a problem with cygwin rsync.

• jlokier 6y ago
  It sees the filesystem the way Cygwin maps it, so what's transferred isn't an exact match for Windows files and attributes. For example, Windows symlinks and Cygwin symlinks are quite different. I don't think Cygwin rsync can replicate a directory containing Windows symlinks properly, so that the replica behaves the same as seen by Windows programs. I'm not sure about the other Windows attributes such as ACLs but I would be surprised if Cygwin rsync can replicate those.
  • stjohnswarts 6y ago
    very few things can handle stuff like that going from windows->$another_os. You'll just have to compress them down with a format that understands those and preserves them and transfer it. Some of them don't even make sense on other filesystems.
    • jlokier 6y ago
      That's true. But sometimes you just want to move things from Windows to Windows. Then cygwin rsync isn't up to it. (scp isn't either.) That's different from MacOS, where there's a Mac-native version of rsync to transfer attributes that don't exist on $another_os.