Step-by-step how to use rsync with git bash from Windows command prompt

how-to-win-rsync-from-cmd.md

Note: This works all except for the shell script part. Need to figure that out. You can do it interactively just not from the command prompt.

1. Install Git
2. Install Git Bash via Git Tortoise install
3. Added HOME=/c/Users/$USERNAME to C:\Program Files\Git\etc\profile
4. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32232978/change-the-location-of-the-directory-in-a-windows-install-of-git-bash
5. Download rsync.exe from https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/rsync-3.2.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst use 7-zip to decompress
6. See https://blog.tiger-workshop.com/add-rsync-to-git-bash-for-windows/
7. Put rsync.exe into C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
8. Open Git Bash and create a key file using ssh-keygen
9. Create a shell script that copies the files
10. Example test.sh

eval $(ssh-agent -s)
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
rsync -avz Pictures/ root@targetmachine:/data/pictures/

1. Run the shell script from the command line
   1. "c:\Program Files\git\bin\sh.exe" -c "sh test.sh"

Updated link. Untested.

there's a newer version of rsync available. go to https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/ and search for "rsync".
The current version is

rsync-3.2.7-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst	22-Dec-2022 09:53	365K

$ rsync --version
C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries: msys-crypto-3.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can not find msys-crypto-3.dll on https://packages.msys2.org/ and all internet

any comment !!

@JulioAviles - you'll find the dlls in the OpenSSL package: https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libopenssl-3.0.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

copying the two DLLs into the same folder as the rsync.exe got rsync working for me

@JulioAviles - you'll find the dlls in the OpenSSL package: https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libopenssl-3.0.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

copying the two DLLs into the same folder as the rsync.exe got rsync working for me

You were right @bryangruneberg, I really appreciate your help, just hoping to be claner (I hope so) I put both file insize C:\ProgramFile\Git\bin folder and the magic happened, rsync working fine!! Thank's again.

HAPPY FIXING !

We did this winget install zstd, then:

mkdir -p ~/.bin
cd ~/.bin
curl   https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/rsync-3.3.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst | tar --zstd -xf - 'usr/bin/rsync.exe' -O > rsync.exe
curl  https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libxxhash-0.8.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst| tar --zstd -xf - 'usr/bin/msys-xxhash-0.dll' -O > msys-xxhash-0.dll
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.bin' >> ~/.bashrc

And then start a new shell or source your bashrc and it should work.

I started reading here for my quest of having rsync working on Git Bash; but it seemed complicated, so I went elsewhere.

I ended up downloading cwRsync client, unzipping, putting the bin folder in Windows system-wide variables, and voilà !