I don't know much about patents, but my understanding is it's
a win32 build that uses the cygwin dlls to provide some of the
linux functionality in a windows environment, but doesn't need
all of cygwin installed.
I've zipped up (and changed the password :) ) of the rsync
folder I use with backuppc at
http://digdilem.org/misc/rsyncd.zip
service.bat installs rsyncd as a windows' service and the
default share is all of c:\ (protected by a user/pass) on the
standard rsync port - and any rsync client can then connect
and copy exactly as you would a linux server. It works well
and is very lightweight, and being rsync is efficient in what
it copies. No other software is needed in Xp, Vista or Win7,
although if windows firewall needs to stay on obviously
rsync's port needed opening.
I also normally include a win32 build of munin-node in that
folder, which gives some very basic stats for my pretty graph
factory...
Si
