rsync is great in *nix but in Windows it's a pain to set up if you don't
already have a Cygwin environment in place. Been there, done that,
switched to Unison when I needed to do it last time, haven't looked back :)

Also, twice a year rsync in Windows would insist all my files had
changed and copy all of them. It coincided with the Daylight Savings
Time change, and nothing I did ever fixed it.

Cheerful regards,

Bob


M.L. wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Carlos Marcano<c.marcano@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Before dipping into a propietary or open source application for
>> backing up, I think I would like to keep using my system but I think I
>> need a software which coul be used to compare the content of both hard
>> drives (the local and the networked backup) and tell me if there is
>> any file missing in the backup. This should run on Windows. Does
>> anything like that exists?
> 
> rsync was designed for exactly this purpose.
> 
> man rsync
> rsync -av source destination
> 
> -
> Martin
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