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Contents 1 Rsync official web site 2 Rsync addons 2.1 Gzip rsyncable 2.1.1 Compile binarys 2.1.1.1 Windows 2.1.2 The rsyncable patch to original gzip 2.1.3 Compressing the whole directory tree before Rsync 2.2 Rsync encryption 3 Rsync on Windows OS 3.1 Access of windows shadow copy by rsync 3.2 cwRsync 3.3 Cygwin 3.4 SSH rsync in Windows 4 Other 4.1 Tapeless backup advantage 4.2 NasBackup

Rsync official web site

Main page
Documentation

Rsync addons

Gzip rsyncable

On most Linux distribution gzip have "--rsyncable" flag included.

Compile binarys

Windows

If you gzip dose not support "--rsyncable" flag, you can download it here Download

The rsyncable patch to original gzip

Gzip rsyncable patch diff
Gzip rsyncable patch diff for widnows (cygwin)

The original link to rsync site is broken

Compressing the whole directory tree before Rsync

You can use find command that pipe to gzip --rsyncable. For example:

% find . ! -perm -0100 -size +1 -type f -print | xargs gzip --rsyncable -v

Command explanation can be found here: www.unix.org.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch24_12.htm

 

Rsync encryption

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rsyncrypto

Rsync on Windows OS

Access of windows shadow copy by rsync

Tip from rsync mailling list

cwRsync

cwRsync project windows server install kit Go

Cygwin

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. You can download new version of rsync to windows here. Go

SSH rsync in Windows

How to implament Rsync SSH (VPN) Windows Go

Other

Tapeless backup advantage

White paper from Software Pursuits about Tapeless Archiving. Broken Link

NasBackup

NasBackup was chosen by "Turner Consulting Group" as online backup solution. It replace some of the bigest commercial solotion on the market: "Connected Online Backup" and "Remote Backup" [1]