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Asked: 2012-08-07 19:59:55 +0800 CST

Sync files and folders in windows with commands

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I am a Linux user. I am looking for a command line tool for Widows(2008 R2) for files & folders synchronization. I am looking for a tool like rsync in Linux. I have to synchronize between two Windows machine and also between a windows and a Linux(Ubuntu).

What everybody use in their company for synchronization when it is to be scheduled to run a script?. Anybody suggest any command line(for scripts) tool for files & folders synchronization(incremental backup sync for VMs and zipped files) in windows platform and also for cross platform synchronization?.

Thank you!

windows-server-2008-r2

4 Answers

  1. Cygwin is:

    A collection of tools which provide a Linux look and feel environment for Windows. http://www.cygwin.com/

    So can you install it and try it out,

    Thanx

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  2. I use Deltacopy to regulary sync a +14GB PST file over lan. Is an rsync implementation - changes/adds only the modified bits - so is a lot faster than copying. Supports stopping and resuming. Creates a windows service on the server side, the client is a command-line utility. Is easy to set up and works well for me.

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  3. Robocopy will do what you are asking for Windows sync built into the later versions of Windows and can be installed on older versions. To do cross platform you can mount NFS, CIFS, etc to get Linux files from Windows.

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  4. We use DFS to keep directories in sync. No reason it wouldn't work cross-platform if you included a SAMBA share. And it only replicates changes to files, not whole files. So if you change the permissions on a large archive, you replicate a few bytes, rather than the whole file. Take a look at it.

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