Struggle with simple first time install on 2008 R2

Tue Oct 21 01:14:47 GMT 2025

On 21/10/2025 01:07, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
> I think the original pebcak was trying to do anything useful with Win2008 aside from throw it into the landfill. The M$ docs show that robocopy and xcopy exist in 2008 R2 so why aren't you using the native tools?
>
I agree with Matthew.
If you need a local syncronization robocopy is the tool.
I use it for all my Windows documents and their backup on USB sticks and 
NAS server (with Samba shared drives)
In the unlikely case that you really need to install older
Cygwin versions, you need Peter Castro's Time Machine
http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html
Regards
Marco