Struggle with simple first time install on 2008 R2

Tue Oct 21 09:20:56 GMT 2025

Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2025, 01:07:28 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
matthew patton:
> I think the original pebcak was trying to do anything useful with Win2008
> aside from throw it into the landfill. 

Matthew, yes, of course. This inquiry is part of the final steps to retire the 
system. 
> The M$ docs show that robocopy and
> xcopy exist in 2008 R2 so why aren't you using the native tools?

Yes, but the task for rsync is to transfer multiple VMS with 800 GB in total 
multiple times. Thus, it requires to transfer the binary delta at different 
stages (in between the VMs are being worked on). This won't work with M$ tools 
to my knowledge.
I wonder, the nobody ever stumbled upon this:
nothing provides _windows >= 6.3 needed by cygwin-3.6.1-1
Solution 1/1 (default)
 - do not ask to install cygwin-3.6.1-1
-- 
Best,
Pete
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