I use Rsync with my linux machines to back up files across drives.
I am now trying to help a friend come up with a solution to easily backup files across drives, on his Windows 7 machine.
What is the windows world equivalent to Rsync (doesn't neccesarily have to be command line utility).
Thanks
Aside from the Cygwin package mentioned by Kodiologist (and by extension one for MobaXterm), there's also cwRsync, and Grsync )which also works as a GUI for rsync on UNIX systems too).
You could also just build rsync yourself locally. Last I checked, it builds and links fine for Windows using mingw.
I used the following two
Delta Copy http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp
Incremental backup - Copies part of the file that is actually modified Task scheduler - Profiles in DeltaCopy can run based on a schedule Email notification - Administrators can receive email confirmation on successful as well as failed transfers One-click restore - Backed up files can be easily restored. Windows friendly environment - No need to manually modify configuration files or play around with command line options.
It's based on Windows service
cwRsync https://itefix.net/cwrsync
It's more advanced tool. cwRsync is a packaging of Rsync (link is external) for Windows with a client GUI. You can use cwRsync for fast remote file backup and synchronization.
cwRsync - Rsync for WindowsRsync uses the Rsync algorithm (link is external) which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand. At first glance this may seem impossible because the calculation of diffs between two files normally requires local access to both files.
Rsync normally uses ssh for communication. It requires no special privileges for installation. You must, however, have a working ssh system. Alternatively, rsync can run in `daemon' mode, listening on a socket. This is generally used for public file distribution, although authentication and access control are available.
For very simple sync tasks I would also recommend SyncToy from Microsoft.
Cygwin's built-in package manager has a package for rsync.
