I'd run rsync on cygwin.  I use it all the time, and it works well.

You can sort of throttle the rsync speed a bit, but it's not exactly 
throttling, so if the files are big, or the connection is slow, be careful, 
it only kind of throttles it.

Kev.



On Monday 07 February 2005 14:18, Chris Lobkowicz wrote:
> Anyone know off the top of their head?
>
> I am looking to sync a "large" amount of data between two machines. And
> lets just say the 2Tb partition limit is what is catching me here. To even
> do an index of a 2Tb file system with ntfs on it is obscenely slow.
>
> So I am migrating to a better filesystem/os!
>
> But, I need to get lots n lots of data off. Robocopy is ok, but limited to
> the restraints of the machine/os/filesystem.
> I would like to at least rsync the data, at a slow rate, over a number of
> days. As not to impact the normal services of these boxes.
>
> So, does anyone have any suggestions as to methodology? Or to rsync client
> for windows?
>
> Thanks
> Chris

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