Bzr on windows and rsync

[John Arbash Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On  6 Jun 2006, Mark <mwatts42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have searched the help for examples of using rsync on windows (windows client
>> and windows server) but I have not found any.  I did find a reference that
>> suggests that some more information on using rsync on windows would help, and I
>> agree.
>>  
>> I am in a situation where i would like to push/pull changes from a repository
>> hosted on a Windows 2003 Terminal server where I have the following
>> restrictions
>> 1) I can't 'install' anything - no rights
>> 2) I can modify my local path and copy bzr and rsync to directories in my
>> 'home' directory where they would be able to be run from.
>>  
>> I have never used rsync before and the sheer number of options are a bit
>> overwhelming.  I do have a windows version of rsync available but I don't know
>> if this is the 'recomended' version for use on windows.
>>  
>> rsync  version 2.5.7  protocol version 26
>> Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
>> <http://rsync.samba.org/>
>> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
>>               no IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
> 
> If you can put the rsync exe on the machine and run it then bzr should
> be able to call it.  You just need to make sure it's on your PATH so it
> can be run.   You don't need to worry about the options; bzr sets them.
> 


I think the biggest problem is that he wants a server process.
I'm not sure if he is saying he wants to run the rsync server and be
able to push onto his machine, or if he is just saying he wants to use
rsync to copy between local paths.

Since Windows 2k3 wouldn't have ssh or rsync or http (or ftp) running,
I'm not sure how we could access files from remote. I suppose if he
could share the files over samba, he should be able to access them from
another machine.

Mark- can you clarify if you are trying to rsync between paths on the
same machine, or between machines?

John
=:->

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