Comments on: Using rsync on Windows

By: Cd-MaN

Cd-MaN — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:54:45 +0000

As long as the servers can connect to each-other trough TCP, rsync will work (so you need check firewall, NAT and any other device which is in the middle).

By: ShaileshT

ShaileshT — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:48:24 +0000

Can we take backup using rsync for a remote server that has ONLY static IP.

e.g: I have Server "A" - windows server 2008 R2. Server "B" is windows server 2003 R2 (with static IP)

Can I use rsync to sych files, both the servers are not in same network.,

By: Cd-MaN

Cd-MaN — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:16:01 +0000

@Marcus: according to their website cwRsync supports Windows 7, both as client and as server.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:18:50 +0000

Does this work with Windows 7?

By: Cd-MaN

Cd-MaN — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:34:27 +0000

@cherry: please give more details about what you mean by “conflict with other programs”. If you already had cygwin installed on the server, you might have problems with different versions of cygwin1.dll. If this is the case, you should try the advice given in the paragraph which begins with “The first and most important: different versions of cygwin1.dll do not play well together”…

In the case that doesn’t solve the problem, please get back with a more detailed description of the problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:21:51 +0000

I do hav a doubt!!!
when we installed cygwin, is there any conflict with other program which was already running in that server, b'coz cygwin installed lot of packages!!!!!
please let me know ASAP

By: xastor

xastor — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:50:34 +0000

A comment on the last section, talking about temporary files. You can prevent rsync from using a temporary file by specifying the –inplace parameter, which forces rsync to update files without making a work-copy first; this avoids some of the issues.

By: Cd-MaN

Cd-MaN — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:52:28 +0000

Two things:

- under cygwin you have to reference a directory as /cygdrive/drive/directory/with/slashes/not/back/slashes. For example c:foobar would be written as /cygdrive/foo/bar

- I don't know if you can actually synchronize two remove server (from what I understand this is what you're trying to do). Instead you should go to one of the servers and launch rsync locally on it like this:

rsync //10.62.50.138/nash /cygdrive/c/foo/nash

(supposing that you have the other directory accessible through Samba)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:48:21 +0000

Hi there,
I like your post, and I hope that you can help me.

I would like to synchronize two server (trusted domain)
10.62.50.138 has directory NASH and 10.62.50.135 has directory NASH (without data)

What command should i use to synchronize these two servers?

I tried :

rsync -avr 10.62.50.138/nash /10.62.50.135/nash

and got following:

C:Program FilescwRsyncbin>rsync -avr 10.62.50.138/nash /10.62.50.135/nash
building file list ... rsync: link_stat "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cwRsync/bin/1
0.62.50.138/nash" failed: No such file or directory (2)
done
rsync: push_dir#3 "/10.62.50.135" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(565) [
receiver=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453) [sender=
2.6.9]

Thanks in advance,

Nash

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:12:36 +0000

Thanks for the nice post!