Short Bytes: At the first day of Microsoft Build Developer Conference 2016, something amazing happened. Microsoft showed the world how Ubuntu on Windows 10 can ease the lives of developers. By installing official Ubuntu binaries on Windows 10, you can use any Linux tool on Windows 10 and get your work done.
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Earlier, we told you about the expected next chapter in Microsoft’s love affair with Linux that mentioned a partnership between Microsoft and Canonical to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10. Well, at Microsoft’s Developer Build Conference 2016 we got the confirmation.
Install rsync on Windows smoothly Since rsync was designed for Unix/Linux/BSD systems, to run rsync on Microsoft Windows, the Cygwin package is necessary to provide the expected system interfaces, or Microsoft's SFU (Services for Unix) package. A few package combinations are available that include rsync, cygwin, and an installer, making it easier and more familiar to Windows users. Instead using rsync, you can copy only the blocks that are changed (instead of copying the whole file again). If you use the standard copy feature of Windows, you won’t be able to incrementally copy only the changed blocks. Deltacopy is a Windows software that is a wrapper for the rsync program.
The long-rival operating systems have come together to allow developers use their favorite Linux tools inside Windows 10. During Day 1’s keynote at Build 2016, Microsoft’s Kevin Gallo announced that now you can run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. This won’t be possible due to some virtual machine, emulator or a container. Instead, it’ll be with the help of Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows 10.
Microsoft has already brought Visual Studio and SQL Server to Linux, apart from other examples of its admiration for open source and Linux.
Ubuntu on Windows 10 — What does it mean?
Well, thanks to the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary update, Windows OS will get a new developer feature that will allow you to import Ubuntu binaries and run native Linux shells and command line tools.
To run Bash on Windows, users usually turned to Cygwin, a GNU command line utility for Win 32 or HyperV and Ubuntu. Another option was to use Docker to run a Linux container.
On his blog, Dustin Kirkland from Canonical writes:
“Right, so just Ubuntu running in a virtual machine?” Nope! This isn’t a virtual machine at all. There’s no Linux kernel booting in a VM under a hypervisor. It’s just the Ubuntu user space. “Ah, okay, so this is Ubuntu in a container then?” Nope! This isn’t a container either. It’s native Ubuntu binaries running directly in Windows. “Hum, well it’s like cygwin perhaps?” Nope! Cygwin includes open source utilities are recompiled from source to run natively in Windows. Here, we’re talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows.
Willing to know more? Well, when this feature arrives in Windows 10, you’ll be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10 by simply getting Ubuntu from Canonical and Windows Store like this:
The screenshots show a lightweight and real Ubuntu image on top of Windows 10. This Ubuntu on Windows 10 installation brings all Linux tool you can name — apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch, and more.
Inside your Windows installation drive, you can see all of your Ubuntu files in C:UsersYourUserNameAppDataLocalLxssrootfs
After setting up everything, you can run apt-get update in Windows 10 and download your favorite developer packages. Below is the result of apt-get install emacs23:
Also, you don’t need to use Putty. Now you can just ssh directly from the Ubuntu shell and get the work done — everything without touching your other Ubuntu system.
Here’s a Windows 10 Start Menu screenshot that shows Ubuntu on Windows 10. Looks pretty great to me!
Wondering what Canonical thinks about the new partnership?
Here’s what Dustin Kirkland had to say — “This is an almost surreal endorsement by Microsoft on the importance of open source to developers. Indeed, what a fantastic opportunity to bridge the world of free and open source technology directly into any Windows 10 desktop on the planet.”
Are you excited about this future with Ubuntu on Windows 10? Share your views in the comments below.
Here’s our complete coverage of Build Developer Conference 2016.
Active7 years, 10 months ago
I am trying to configure rsync for backing up files on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box to a Ubuntu box. All (non-test) data must be encrypted.
I have managed to get it working using just rsync, recieving date from port 873, but I am having trouble using plink as well.
Here is my configuration: Stronghold crusader free download windows 10.
Ubuntu
rsyncd.conf:
Rsync deamon has been started, and there is a 'ukwindb1' account, with a SSH public key for authentication. All SSH traffic is on a different port, not 22.
The password for 'ukwindb1', stored in the rsyncd.secrets file is not the same as for the Ubuntu account (though passwords are disabled for SSH login).
Windows Server
I have cygwin installed, and have managed to get rsync to work, using this batch file:
I also have the Putty programs installed, and want to use plink to connect to the other server, so that I can use Pageant to manage my passworded keys.
I tried this batch file, to connect to the SSH server using plink, and it worked fine:
Now, when I tried this batch file for putting the two together, it failed:
Any ideas? What exactly am I doing wrong?
In addition:
Do I actually need the rsync daemon running?
Can I specify a directory on the server, from the client end, rather than '::ukwindb1backup'?
Lewis BassettLewis Bassett
1 Answer
I think you can skip
rsyncd
and plink
entirely, by rearranging your architecture a bit (which will have other benefits).I believe that
rsyncd
daemon doesn't actually need to be running to do a basic rsync for backup purposes. rsync
normally just connects to the other box over SSH, fires up an instance of rsync on the far side, and the two rsync
s talk to each other over ssh -- the rsyncd
daemon isn't really involved. rsyncd
is normally used to serve content for download by multiple clients (like a mirror server).In this setup, I assume that the box receiving the backup (the Ubuntu box) is the more 'trusted' system (from a security perspective) --- not because it's Ubuntu, but because backup servers naturally have to hold data for multiple sensitive hosts. As such, I would recommend initiating the
rsync
from the Ubuntu box, and setting the key trust relationship so that it's the Windows box that trusts the Ubuntu box, and not the other way around. This would mean setting up sshd under Cygwin, and locking it down (with a host-based firewall) so that only connections from your backup server are permitted. You could then simply execute:
.. which also demonstrates how to specify the directory on the serving side.
As the next troubleshooting step, I would drop trying to use
rsyncd
, temporarily leaving out key-based authentication just as you did in your earlier troubleshooting, and just try a simple rsync (of a couple of test files) using password-based authentication.Once you get the basic sync working, you'll also want to look at
rsync
's --modify-window
option, which will ignore the small drift in timestamps that can result from the differences in how Windows and Unix-likes handle seconds in timestamps. Otherwise, files that could otherwise be skipped will get copied over and over again.I also strongly recommend leaving off the
--delete
option until after you have finished debugging and testing your solution. One typo and you can delete far more than you intended.Royce WilliamsRoyce Williams