rsync for Windows.

see releases page for binaries.

I had a bad time trying to find a working rsync for Windows. I read some blogs about cwRsync, but I just couldn't get it to work.

Finally, I repacked the rsync.exe, ssh.exe and cygpath.exe from Cygwin, and wrote a Rust wrapper around it.

It works for me, and I hope it works for you too.

0. goto releases page & download rsync-win.zip
1. extract rsync-win.zip to a directory X (e.g. C:\)
2. add X\rsync-win to PATH (e.g. add C:\rsync-win to PATH)
   make sure rsync-win.exe is in X:\rsync-win (e.g. C:\rsync-win\rsync-win.exe)
3. restart your terminal and use rsync-win in your powershell/cmd

• e.g. bandwidth limit 2048 KBytes/s, -a, -v, show progress, copy from remote machine to local, exclude *.log files, and save to ./target/ directory.

  rsync-win --bwlimit=2048 -av --exclude='*.log' --progress -s <REMOTE USER>@<REMOTE_MACHINE>:<REMOTE_PATH> -d ./target/
  

• Help

  rsync for Windows.
  Most of the options are the same as the original rsync.
  
  Usage: rsync-win.exe [OPTIONS] --src <SRC> --dest <DEST>
  
  Options:
    -i, --identity <IDENTITY>  SSH identity file [default: "C:/Users/<YOUR USER NAME>/.ssh/id_rsa"]
    -v, --verbose
    -q, --quiet
    -c, --checksum
    -a, --archive
    -r, --recursive
        --delete
        --exclude <EXCLUDE>
        --progress
        --bwlimit <BWLIMIT>
    -4, --ipv4
    -6, --ipv6
    -s, --src <SRC>
    -d, --dest <DEST>
    -h, --help                 Print help
  

some blogs:

• 如何讓 OpenSSH for Windows 也能支援 Rsync 遠端加密連線傳輸

• 如何在 Windows 安裝 Cygwin 的 SSHD 服務並正確使用 Rsync 同步檔案