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I'm a bit new to the command line and UNIX but am finding it hugely useful. Is it possible for me to rsync from putty on my windows 7 machine to my virtual server?
If not what are my other command line options? I just want to update my cms scripts without having to SFTP into each website account with Filezilla. A nice rsync command would suit me better.
Cygwin is a way to run a Linux-like environment on window. Among other things it provides a rsync binary.
Consider using cwRsync, a packaging of rsync for Windows. PuTTY by itself does not provide rsync.
Have a look at Deltacopy which is a windows implementation of rsync. The package contains just what you need to do the job.
I use rsync in Cygwin on Win-XP to transfer files to and from a Linux virtual server. If your Centos server has a name which Windows 7 understands, it might be as simple as
rsync -avz --progress ~/sortdata/ root@centos:/var/www/sort/
It's not necessary to use Putty - that would probably mean logging into the Centos server and doing the rsync in the opposite direction.
BTW, keep using that command-line -- it gets easier with practice.
