Rsync on windows server 2003

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I'm currently dealing with a Windows web server, definitely not my cup of tea. I thought about rsync and looks like there are some ways to do it: using rsync on both sides with cygwin on win using grsync on both sideds with cygwin? So, 1 is rejected. Questions: have you ever tried to install grsync on win? Any tip? Improve this question. Thanks for this great article. I hope it helps. Best regards,. The correct way to ensure that Cywin doesn muck around with permissions is to add the noacl option to your mount point options.

Post a Comment. Conor's Web Log of Esoterica. Hey, I just happen to have an opinion or two Server Setup Download cygwin's setup. I installed the complete package. I'm sure that you could get by with a lesser install, but given the cheap cost of disk space, why bother.

However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'. Should privilege separation be used? Should this script create a local user 'sshd' on this machine? Do you want to install sshd as service?

It's recommended to set at least "ntsec" to be able to change user context without password. Default is "ntsec". Host configuration finished. You will probably have to open up the services control panel and double click on the Rsync service. Open the Log On tab and either change it to logon using the Local System account or edit the account information to a valid login account. You will need the following files: From Cygwin: cygpopt Please be careful where you place the server as any one who can see it can read from this service.

It was. When you say "system1" is this actually an ip address that you're hiding, or a hostname, or computer name? Skip to main content. Search form Search. Experiencing code 12 failures with rsyncd between 2 Windows Server systems. Last post.