cwrsync

Lost use of forward slash in windows command prompt

I can no longer use / at the windows xp command prompt, and it seems to have started after a botched cygwin installation, e.g. cd /windows won't work, but used to. Can anyone think of how this might have happened? OOPS! It doesn't normally work in XP, though I had read that it does in Vista. I simplified my problem and it was wrong. Th...

File Replication across WAN link

Wondering if anyone can suggest a good file replication tool that will replicate across a WAN link. No fancy stuff, i.e. VPN, we're looking for just a straight up TCP/IP connection that will sync bi-directionally. We have looked at robo-copy, rsync (which we have in place currently but it's only one way) and a few others smaller tech...

Ways to synch many (small) files over high-latency network connection

We typically deploy our software applications to our clients using Subversion (svn update on the clients; unidirectional). We're currently experiencing problems with one of our clients because of the high latency (large file download speeds are good) because they are in China and our server is in Canada. Subversion simply times out with ...

cwRsync ignores "nontsec" on Windows 7

I use cwRsync to sync up some file from Windows to Ubuntu. This process used to work fine on Vista, but since I upgraded to Windows7, I keep getting permission issues. Some background... I did use to get the same permission issues on Vista, but that was resolved by using the CYGWIN=nontsec environment variable. The premission problem ...