On 02/26/2013 10:19 AM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Richard Esplin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I use rsnapshot as a layer over rsync so that I wouldn't have to figure out >> the rsync options on my own. > Ditto. Works well and isn't over complicated. However, it requires > Perl, hardlinks and rsync. Might not be that great on Windows ;) > > > Best, > Gabe > > I'm a little late to this party, still catching up on backlog.
The last I used rsync-ish (unison actually) on windows with cygwin, it was a miserable failure. Copying files manually was faster. As I recall, it comes down to that each file has to be stat-ed, and doing that through cygwin is really, really slow. I think there was also problems with permissions, ownerships, extended attributes, etc. But it's been a while, so I don't remember much except rsync/unison-cygwin wasn't the solution I hoped it'd be. I wish there was a decent rsync-based client for windows; I've needed it on occasion. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
