On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Ammar James <lone.no...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I assume on linux most of you will say rsync sucks least, is that still >> right? >> I don't feel great about using cygwin so I'd like to hear your opinions. >> > > > Yes. rsync is still the best choice for this job.
I use Unison. It's very far from suckless. It's good if you actually require updating the files on both ends, but rsync must be much better for pure backup. If you're already using Windows, there must be some GUI for rsync anyway, so you shouldn't need to install cygwin just for this purpose.