June 22, 2013

Sync Files between Unix and Windows

The rsync command can be used to sync files between Unix machines or between a Unix machine and Mac computer. Here is the syntax

rsync -avz --progress user_name@source_host_name:/path/to/file/name /local/path

1	rsync -avz --progress user_name@source_host_name:/path/to/file/name /local/path

What if you want to copy files from a Unix machine to a local Windows machine. Here is how:

Install http://sourceforge.net/projects/grsync-win on the windows Machine then launch it and fill as in the following screenshot

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