Hi everyone

I have a folder of incremental backups on a Linux server and I'd like to keep a copy of it on a Windows laptop. This will be happening over a gigabit LAN and it will usually need to copy 2-3 files of 100-300MB each.

I thought of setting up an SMB share on the windows machine then mounting that on the Linux box and copying the files over. But I don't really want to have windows sharing enabled on the laptop permanently.

But then I thought that I can probably do something with rsync but then I've read reports of differing success with rsync on Windows.

Anyone got any comments/suggestions on this?
Ideally I'd like the trigger for the file copy to be on the Linux server side, so a cron job on there to push the files over.
Rather than the laptop trying to pull the files down.

Cheers, B

Since you only want to mirror the contents, a simple rsync script probably is all you need, but you might want to check out unison also. It should work on all platforms.

Unison looks interesting.
If I only want the sync to be one-way, Linux to the Windows laptop, which one of those do I need to set as an rsync server?
Also if a file is deleted from the directory on the Linux box, I also want it removed from the Windows laptop.

Do you think it's better for the Linux box to push the backups across, or for the Windows laptops to pull them down?

Cheers, B