[DominikHoffmann]

Background:

I have a Windows box with a share and a directory on my Mac OS X box, which I want to synchronize. rsync seems to be an obvious approach. However, there are many different modes of running rsync.

My approach:

1. Mount Windows share on Mac OS X box.
2. rsync like it is a local synchronization.

Alternative approach:

1. Somehow get rsync running on the Windows box as a server (Cygwin?).
2. Make rsync:// type connection from Mac OS X box to Windows box and sync.

The only reason I am thinking about the alternative approach is that my original approach doesn't seem to be the standard thing. But then rsyncing between Unix and Windows isn't exactly standard, either.

Any thoughts?

Dominik Hoffmann

[uberwrensch]

Originally posted by DominikHoffmann:
Alternative approach:

1. Somehow get rsync running on the Windows box as a server (Cygwin?).
2. Make rsync:// type connection from Mac OS X box to Windows box and sync.

It's how I've got it set up. Works like a charm. I don't have the URLs handy at the moment, but it's nothing to set up Cygwin + rsync as service on Windows.

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[DominikHoffmann]

Originally posted by uberwrensch:
It's how I've got it set up. Works like a charm. I don't have the URLs handy at the moment, but it's nothing to set up Cygwin + rsync as service on Windows.

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Any reason, why you didn't use "My Approach?"

Dominik Hoffmann

[uberwrensch]

Originally posted by DominikHoffmann:
Any reason, why you didn't use "My Approach?"

I've not found mounting my W2K shares via built-in methods very stable or consistent--haven't tried using Dave, PCMacLan, etc. I suppose I should get to the root of the problem, but haven't spent much time trying to figure it out. Anyway, what other sharing I need to do between my PB and the Windows machines I do with ftp.

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