Rsync-equivalent for Windows using minio

README.md

Requirements

• MacOS/Linux/Windows workstation
• Windows machine where source needs to be executed/built/etc
• Trusted network access between both (VPN or LAN only)

On Windows Machine

• Download minio executable

  choco install minio-server
  

• Start a persistent minio process to share a parent directory that will contain your read-only, mirror destination

  $env:MINIO_ACCESS_KEY="AKIAIOSFODNN8EXAMPLE"
  $env:MINIO_SECRET_KEY="wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCZEXAMPLEKEY"
  
  minio server c:\Users\myuser\workspace

On Workstation

• Download mc minio client

  # MacOS
  brew install minio-mc
  
  # Windows
  choco install minio-client
  

• Add Windows machine as a host for minio

  mc config add host devbox "AKIAIOSFODNN8EXAMPLE" "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCZEXAMPLEKEY"
  
  # test connection
  mc ls devbox
  
  # Output: (may be empty for new directories)
  [2020-08-01 12:14:38 EDT]      0B foo/
  [2020-08-01 12:14:38 EDT]      0B bar/
  

• Start a persistent mc process to constantly mirror your workstation source directory to your Windows machine

  mc mirror --watch --overwrite --remove --exclude '.git/*' --exclude '.idea/*' ~/workspace/my-project devbox/my-project