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Title: Rsync these days?
Post by: newsposter on March 30, 2015, 03:16:10 am

It's been a while since there was any discussion of rsync and what software is favors on windows machines.

What are peoples favorite rsync clients, command line or windows service?

Title: Re: Rsync these days?
Post by: Arindelle on March 30, 2015, 07:58:03 am

hmm, all my backups are local ... don't do any remote syncing. So nothing really to add but I'm interested ...

For info, locally I use SyncBack -- I believe this can be used remotely with the paid version.

Title: Re: Rsync these days?
Post by: aoqw76 on March 31, 2015, 07:03:21 pm

Rsync isnt just for remote backup, I use it to sync my music folder to a USB drive once a month. (on Linux)
The windows equivalent I used to use was synctoy (by Microsoft) but I've since switched to using crashplan. Without subscribing to their cloud backup, you can use crashplan to back up to a second internal drive, or a USB external drive, there are many other options. Crashplan runs in the background, but I think you can schedule it to backup once a day rather than continuously.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=15155
https://www.code42.com/crashplan/

Title: Re: Rsync these days?
Post by: astromo on April 24, 2015, 04:10:02 am

Quote from: aoqw76 on March 31, 2015, 07:03:21 pm

Rsync isnt just for remote backup, I use it to sync my music folder to a USB drive once a month. (on Linux)
The windows equivalent I used to use was synctoy (by Microsoft) but I've since switched to using crashplan. Without subscribing to their cloud backup, you can use crashplan to back up to a second internal drive, or a USB external drive, there are many other options. Crashplan runs in the background, but I think you can schedule it to backup once a day rather than continuously.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=15155
https://www.code42.com/crashplan/

This review might be out of date:
http://www.backupreview.com/crashplan-review/ (http://www.backupreview.com/crashplan-review/)
Do you find any hassle with memory usage?

Title: Re: Rsync these days?
Post by: Arindelle on April 24, 2015, 04:53:04 am

anybody try IDrive .. I here its very fast for both upload and download