[BackupPC-announce] cygwin-rsyncd-3.0.9.0 released

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Thanks to Ray Frush, I have released a new version of cygwin-rsyncd, the
cygwin-based rsync for WinXX-based client machines.  As users have noted,
the prior version is many years old.

The released files can be found on SF.net at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/files/cygwin-rsyncd/3.0.9.0/


Download and run cygwin-rsyncd-3.0.9.0_installer.exe to install rsyncd on
your WinXX client for doing BackupPC backups.  The NSIS installer (see
nsis.sourceforge.net) is used to wrap everything into a single .exe.  This
is based on the cwRsync installer, adapted by Ray.

Download cygwin-rsyncd-3.0.9.0_source.zip if you want to customize and
build your own cygwin-rsyncd installer executable (eg: presetting some
configuration parameters specific to your site).  You will need to download
and run NSIS to build the installer executable.

This distribution includes rsync 3.0.9, a handful of cygwin 1.7.13
libraries and blat (a utility for sending a notification email upon
install, using a batch script notify.bat, which is commented out by
default).  It was built using NSIS 3.0a0.

cygwin-rsyncd-3.0.9.0 will work with both BackupPC 3.x and 4.x.  For the
new BackupPC 4.x, rsync 3.0.x is strongly recommended on the client side
(versus rsync 2.x), since some optimizations like matching full-file md5
digests only work with rsync 3.0.x.  Also, rsync 3.0.x (and BackupPC4
rsync_bpc on the server side) both support rsync's incremental file list,
which avoids the need to store the entire file list in memory (which was a
drawback of rsync 2.x for big transfers).

Craig