On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:17:34PM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > 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. When using cygwin binaries, only 1 dll (cygwin1.dll or so) is needed. You don't need to install the whole cygwin environment.
Just look for a binary distributed windows rsync, and it'll come with this dll. >
