Thanks to Ray Frush, I have released a new version of
cygwin-rsyncd, the cygwin-based rsync for WinXX-based client
machines. As users have noted, the prior version is many
years old.
The released files can be found on SF.net at:
Download and run cygwin-rsyncd-3.0.9.0_installer.exe to
install rsyncd on your WinXX client for doing BackupPC
backups. The NSIS installer (see
nsis.sourceforge.net)
is used to wrap everything into a single .exe. This is based
on the cwRsync installer, adapted by Ray.
Download cygwin-rsyncd-3.0.9.0_source.zip if you want to
customize and build your own cygwin-rsyncd installer
executable (eg: presetting some configuration parameters
specific to your site). You will need to download and run
NSIS to build the installer executable.
This distribution includes rsync 3.0.9, a handful of cygwin
1.7.13 libraries and blat (a utility for sending a
notification email upon install, using a batch script
notify.bat, which is commented out by default). It was built
using NSIS 3.0a0.
cygwin-rsyncd-3.0.9.0 will work with both BackupPC 3.x and
4.x. For the new BackupPC 4.x, rsync 3.0.x is strongly
recommended on the client side (versus rsync 2.x), since some
optimizations like matching full-file md5 digests only work
with rsync 3.0.x. Also, rsync 3.0.x (and BackupPC4 rsync_bpc
on the server side) both support rsync's incremental file
list, which avoids the need to store the entire file list in
memory (which was a drawback of rsync 2.x for big transfers).
Craig
