{"id":286,"date":"2003-02-25T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2003-02-25T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=286"},"modified":"2003-02-25T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2003-02-25T17:12:48","slug":"rsync-installation-and-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/25\/rsync-installation-and-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"rsync: installation and implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote up these directions (based on directions @ http:\/\/www.hksilver.net\/rsync\/<\/a> on a couple weeks ago when I was doing some work with rsync. Someday I’m sure I’ll need them again… and maybe someone else will benefit. So here goes nothing:<\/p>\n

Download this<\/a> zip file (which contains cygwin1.dll,instsrv.exe,rsync.exe and srvany.exe) (I mirrored it here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Decompress the contents to c:\\rsync.<\/p>\n

Copy out cygwin1.dll to c:\\(system folder)\\system32, where system folder is either winnt or windows depending upon your OS.<\/p>\n

Open a command prompt and type:<\/p>\n

cd c:\\rsync
\ninstsrv Rsync “c:\\rsync\\srvany.exe”
\nexit<\/p>\n

Click on Start, run, and type in regedit.<\/p>\n

Once you’re in the Registry Editor, make the following changes (Quotes ARE important!):<\/p>\n

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Services -> Rsync<\/p>\n

Right click on Rsync, New -> Key Key Name: Parameters
\nRight click on Parameters New -> String Value
\n\tValue Name: AppDirectory
\n\tValue: “c:\\rsync”<\/p>\n

Right click on Parameters New -> String Value
\n\tValue Name: Application
\n\tValue: “c:\\rsync\\rsync.exe”<\/p>\n

Right click on Parameters New -> String Value
\n\tValue Name: AppParameters
\n\tValue: –config=”c:\\rsync\\rsyncd.conf” –daemon<\/p>\n

Close the Registry Editor.<\/p>\n

SOURCE MACHINE
\n******************************************************
\nIf this is the source machine (ie: a machine you’d like other machines to copy\/sync with), open up c:\\rsync\\rsyncd.conf in notepad and modify the rsync share setting giving it a well-known, descriptive name. Modify the path to point to a directory that you want to make available for others to get access too. Save and close rsyncd.conf.<\/p>\n

Open up Administrative Tools either off the Start Menu or in Control Panel. Double click Services. Scroll down the list to Rsync. Highlight it and start the service.<\/p>\n

To test it, open up a command prompt and type:<\/p>\n

telnet localhost 873<\/p>\n

If you get a connection, rsync was installed successfully. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

DESTINATION MACHINE
\n******************************************************
\nIf this is a machine you’d like to have copy\/sync with a remote host, then bring up a command line and type:<\/p>\n

cd c:\\rsync
\nrsync -rt –progress –delete [INSERT HOST]::[INSERT SHARE] [INSERT DESTINATION PATH]
\nexit<\/p>\n

For example, if I had a staging server located at ip address 10.10.1.162 with a share called “staging.cephas.net” that I wanted to sync with, I’d type something like this:<\/p>\n

rsync -rt –progress –delete 10.10.1.162::staging.cephas.net f:\/fInetPub\/hosts\/live.cephas.net\/wwwroot\/images\/<\/p>\n

where 10.10.1.162 is my staging server, staging.cephas.net is the rsync share, and f:\/fInetPub\/hosts\/live.cephas.net\/wwwroot\/images\/ is the destination that I want to be synced up. Note that if you don’t want files deleted from destination that have been deleted in the source, you should remove the –delete option.<\/p>\n

If you’d like run through a sync as a test, add the -n flag like this:<\/p>\n

rsync -rtn –progress –delete 10.10.1.162::staging.cephas.net f:\/fInetPub\/hosts\/live.cephas.net\/wwwroot\/images\/<\/p>\n

Rsync will list out the files that it *would* have copied\/deleted.<\/p>\n

The synchronization can (and probably should) be run as a scheduled task using Windows Task Scheduler. To do this, create a .bat file, add the following text (substituting your source, share, and destinations):<\/p>\n

cd c:\\rsync
\nrsync -rt –progress –delete 10.10.1.162::staging.cephas.net f:\/finetpub\/hosts\/live.cephas.net\/wwwroot\/images\/<\/p>\n

and then use the Windows Scheduler (Start –> Programs –> Accessories –> System Tools –> Scheduled Tasks) to create a task that fires every n (minutes? hours?) per day.<\/p>\n

Questions or problems? Email me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote up these directions (based on directions @ http:\/\/www.hksilver.net\/rsync\/ on a couple weeks ago when I was doing some work with rsync. Someday I’m sure I’ll need them again… and maybe someone else will benefit. So here goes nothing: Download this zip file (which contains cygwin1.dll,instsrv.exe,rsync.exe and srvany.exe) (I mirrored it here) Decompress the … Continue reading rsync: installation and implementation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}