diff --git a/handbook/computing/winlaptop.html b/handbook/computing/winlaptop.html index 32d15b90e..9cfb0cefc 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/winlaptop.html +++ b/handbook/computing/winlaptop.html @@ -20,9 +20,10 @@

Unlike a Linux machine, on Windows there are two distinct levels of 'bulk update laptop' capability:

  1. Keys and key management, simple file transfer, scp, ftp -
  2. Synchronisation of entire file heirarchies: installation and use of rsync +
  3. Synchronisation of entire file heirarchies: installation and use of rsync
    + TLDR; While it can be done, just don't do this in Windows. It's too fiddly and prone to error. If you really want to synchronise a large file heirarchy, use a Linux machine.
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Level 1 - Windows Bulk Update

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Level 01 - Windows Bulk Update

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Level 2 - Windows Bulk Synchronisation with rsync

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Level 02 - Windows Bulk Synchronisation with rsync

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When using Windows please, please +

TLDR just don't do this: please. +

When using Windows please, please

rsync is a Linux command-line application, so we need a terminal window to run it and a Windows client executable. -None of the packaged software (Filezilla, puTTY) includes a Windows rsync client. +None of the packaged software already documented (Filezilla, PuTTY) includes a Windows rsync client.

Windows comes with a terminal window (cmd.exe) so we 'just' need a native Windows rsync executable rsync.exe.