[user9182031]

Cygwin just feels "heavy" when all I want is rsync. Without any package management (that I'm aware of) I can't just install rsync and whatever other dependencies it has, I have to put hunderds? more binaries on my system.

[LinuxBender]

There is also a linux subsystem for windows 10 which I have never used. Perhaps someone can say if that has rsync.

[ edit ] if that and cygwin are too heavy, you could request the samba team create a posix windows build of rsync. They had one long ago, but stopped supporting it. That would be a single binary. I suspect they will push back.

[user9182031]

This is even heavier. It's a full blown Ubuntu install.

[user9182031]

After a bit of Googling, it looks a company has complied and packged rsync for Windows at a cost of $19 per license @ https://www.itefix.net/cwrsync

I found a Github repo with an older (2017) version of cwRsync that may be from before it went behind a paywall @ https://github.com/billyc/cwrsync-installer

[pletnes]

It does.

[pnutjam]

Check out MobaXterm. It's free as in beer, and seems to wrap up cygwin and x in one console. It's my go to putty replacement.

You can run a local console and rsync directly from your window drives (/drives)