On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 2. juni. 2009, at 15.46, [email protected] wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I am newbie on rsync. >> I want to push files from a rsync repository on a Linux machine >> (hostname=myserver) to some Windows machines (hostname=mydesktopn, where n >> is a sequence number to identify the Windows PC) to force updates of the >> files into C:\mypath\to\files. >> Is there any way to do that? Or is it impossible and I need to content >> pulling the files instead of pushing them. >> > > > This would probably be easier to do with a pull. Install cygwin with rsync > and ssh, script up whatever you want, and add it to windows' "scheduled > tasks". Out of curiosity, why do you do this instead of just sharing mypath > on Samba? > > > *I* do exactly the sort of thing kschwarz describes. Perhaps it will be useful for me (also) to answer these questions. I rarely use cygwin because I find it heavy and fragile. I'm willing to believe that my own unhappy experience with cygwin is unrepresentative of its value in general; perhaps it works great most of the time, in most contexts. I don't rely on Samba because I have situations where I also don't like to install Samba, and moreover the Windows host is frequently disconnected, and unable to reach the Linux-based datacenter. I summarize: the configuration kschwarz had in mind requires less installation and configuration, at least for me. Others will already assume Samba and/or cygwin, and might justly come to a quite different conclusion.
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