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Too bad there’s no rsync for windows

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Msys2 has rsync? And windows has ssh/sshd?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...

https://heejune.me/2018/08/02/setup-rsync-server-over-ssh-on...

Cygwin provides rsync, sftp and lftp for windows.

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.

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.

It does.

This is even heavier. It's a full blown Ubuntu install.

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

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

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)

WSL

hmm... works fine in my mobaxterm window.

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