How To Setup Rsync On Windows

I recently needed to move several gigabytes of data from an quondam laptop running Windows 8.1 to another laptop running macOS and my options were to utilise an external disk or a network transfer. I wanted the whole process to be unattended and then I naturally gravitated towards doing the transfer over my WiFi network.

For the network transfer, the easiest method I could think of was to use scp but it turns out that there'due south no built-in support to "motion" files with scp. My options were to write a script to delete each file later on getting copied or utilize a unlike tool with file move semantics.

A couple of Google searches later, the most up-voted tool on Serverfault for the task is rsync. I'ved used rsync before but I have never used information technology on a Windows box so this was an interesting option to endeavour out.

Some boosted searches led me to this respond how to use rsync from Windows PC to remote Linux server? that I was hoping would be a drop-in solution to my situation.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get rsync working on my starting time attempt because the instructions in the almost-upvoted answer along with other answers on the question no longer work in 2021. Even this somewhat useful article on installing rsync on Windows from more than a year ago, which I constitute on Google, was most completely out of appointment.

I had to figure out a few missing steps to get rsync working on Windows, so I decided to publish stride-by-step instructions to help my futurity self and others in a like situation. I tested the commands below on Windows 8.1, nonetheless they should work on Windows ten or eleven.

The macOS side of things are fairly direct frontward so I wont go into that here.

Instructions

1. Install Git for Windows to the path "C:\Program Files\Git".
   In my instance I already had it installed and so installation just updated my version to v2.33.0.two.

2. Visit https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/ and download the following three (3) file athenaeum:

• rsync-3.2.three-i-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst - the rsync binary for Windows;
• libxxhash-0.viii.0-ane-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst - a (cryptographic) dll that rsync depends on;
• libzstd-one.five.0-one-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst - a (compression) dll that rsync depends on.

three. The .zst extension indicates that the files were compressed using the fast Zstandard compression algorithm open up sourced by Facebook so I had to download another (open source) tool to help me excerpt those files locally: PeaZip for Windows v8.ii.0.

4. Create a temporary folder chosen "C:\tmp" then use PeaZip to extract the 3 files we downloaded earlier into this binder, in 2 (2) steps.

The 1st stride is to use PeaZip to catechumen .tar.zst files to .tar files:

• rsync-iii.two.3-one-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst -> rsync-three.2.3-ane-x86_64.pkg.tar
• libxxhash-0.8.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst -> libxxhash-0.viii.0-i-x86_64.pkg.tar
• libzstd-1.five.0-i-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst -> libzstd-i.5.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar

The 2nd step is to use PeaZip to excerpt the contents of each .tar file. Note that all 3 athenaeum incorporate a folder named \usr with different contents, so exist sure to click "yes" when prompted to overwrite the contents of the C:\tmp\usr folder during the extraction procedure.

5. Now, you demand to move the C:\tmp\usr folder to its terminal destination i.due east. C:\Program Files\Git, or the location where you have Git for Windows installed.

Essentially, we need to merge the contents of C:\tmp\usr with C:\Programme Files\Git\usr so that the rsync binary (and its dependencies) will end up at the following path C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\rsync.exe.

6. The final step is to confirm that you have a working installation of rsync from a command prompt by executing these 2 commands:

cd "C:\Programme Files\Git\usr\bin" and rsync --version

              rsync.exe --version rsync  version 3.2.3  protocol version 31 Copyright (C) 1996-2020 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: https://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities:     64-chip files, 64-fleck inums, 64-scrap timestamps, 64-bit long ints,     socketpairs, hardlinks, no hardlink-specials, symlinks, IPv6, atimes,     batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, optional protect-args, iconv,     symtimes, prealloc, stop-at, no crtimes Optimizations:     no SIMD, asm, openssl-crypto Checksum list:     xxh128 xxh3 xxh64 (xxhash) md5 md4 none Compress listing:     zstd lz4 zlibx zlib none  rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute information technology under certain atmospheric condition.  Run into the GNU General Public Licence for details.                          

7. Yous are done. Bask!

Source: https://ayewo.com/how-to-install-rsync-on-windows/

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