rsync equivalent for Windows 10-11?
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I'm currently looking ways to create backups of certain folders on a regular basis. I do not mind taking the backups by hand (no cronjob - scheduled job) although not prefer it. I know just copying the files by hand will work perfectly for this situation. But these files are scattered through the file system which probably take a lot of time each day. I also thought about writing a powershell script just copying these folders to external drives.
Is there anyone dealt with such problem. Any advice or software recommendations about it?
P.S. Please don't recommend general imagers and such. We are talking about <500MB total file size.
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Just use rsync. Install WSL and you're good to go. Create a bash script that contains the files to backup.
This, but if you need to use an alternative xcopy is native. Not as powerful as rsync but good enough for a lot of use cases.
robocopy is another alternative.
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Well the problem with that is some features are disabled for other reasons (WSL stuff conflicts with some of my existing VM setup.) Thanks for the advice.
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Will give rclone a shot. Thanks
Robocopy called by a batch file is perfect for this.
This looks promising. Thanks for the advice.
For future readers of this thread:
- I solved this with robocopy using .bat / .ps files. Works perfectly stable and fast. It also has lots of attributes and usages which might became handy. Thanks to everyone for their advice.
You can find it here. Robocopy
I use a software called sycback pro. It has a gui interface and has tons of options and features. I highly recommend it,.
It can be set to run automatically in the background as soon as it detects a file change, run on a schedule, and/or run manually. You can also make group profiles that run a series of sync profiles sequentially. It also handles syncing two folders where changes are being made to each better than rsync can do. It's not free, but worth the cost of a lunch for me.
Looks like a great tool. I will probably try it if non-paid options fail. Thanks!