wondering why there are few to no GUI front-ends (are there any good ones? if so, much of my questions here can be disregarded).
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As JW mentioned, GUI front-ends are normally more popular for Win32 than for *nix, and rsync (actually more likely cygwin.dll, but it expresses itself as an rsync problem) has some pretty serious flakiness issues under Win32.
If you really want to develop an rsync or rsync-ish solution for customers (I have been doing the same thing for a while now for my own customers) you have several workable options:
1. get them to use Samba servers to store their files, and use rsync natively. simple methods of automation and click-the-link-ishness abound; that's what shell scripts are *for*.
2. get them to use an NFS daemon on their Win32 fileserver(s). there are both commercial and free ones available. the only real issue I know of with this approach is that to date, I have not found a Win32 NFS server that can handle large (over 4GB) files - but I haven't tried many of the commercial ones.
3. use Unison instead of Rsync. I'm personally not that fond of its interface because it's *too* helpfully Windows-ish, but that might work well for you. it has a native win32 port and a native GUI. it also does not have any issues that I have discovered with cygwin's SSH, although even if it did you could simply use a different SSH transport - rsync's cygwin problem is *not* SSH-related.
Good luck.
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