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Tools for synching and streaming files from Windows to Linux

15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2023-01-06 · latest 2026-03-06

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  1. …now, but there are algorithmic ways to do better than rsync (for incremental transfers, ymmv). https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer Hint: I really like the animated gifs on that page but they are best viewed frame-by-frame like a…
    comment by ilyagr · 2026-03-06 · in Parsync, a tool for parallel SSH transfers – 7x faster than rsync
  2. …with gRPC, protobuf, and FUSE. Dependencies via git submodules or http_archive. GitHub (original): https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer My fork: https://github.com/Vadiml1024/cdc-file-transfer I've been using Claude Code…
    comment by vadiml · 2026-01-27 · in CDC File Xfer Google Stadia's rsync replacement now works on Linux and macOS
  3. …in certain scenarios. Does anyone know if there is a maintained fork with full Linux support? [1]: https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer
    comment by imiric · 2026-01-03 · in The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]
  4. https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer the google repo has been archived, Did they give it up?
    comment by guest567 · 2025-10-03 · in CDC File Transfer
  5. …on it not working for Linux to Linux, and more broad compatibility, here[1] and here[2]. [1] - https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer/issues/56#issuec... [2] - https://github.com/librsync/librsync/issues/242
    comment by rincebrain · 2025-10-01 · in CDC File Transfer
  6. No: https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer?tab=readme-ov-fi...
    comment by kxrm · 2025-10-01 · in CDC File Transfer
  7. The same question was asked here: https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer/issues/56
    comment by ljusten · 2023-01-09 · in CDC File Transfer
  8. Windows to Windows is being worked on, see https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer/compare/main...s... . Linux to Linux is also an option if there is demand, but currently it's Windows to Linux only.
    comment by ljusten · 2023-01-09 · in CDC File Transfer
  9. …on average 35% worse than Cygwin rsync, which can be attributed to CPU differences. Source: https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer
    comment by aembleton · 2023-01-09 · in CDC File Transfer
  10. This is currently being worked on, see https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer/compare/main...s...
    comment by ljusten · 2023-01-09 · in CDC File Transfer
  11. …have suggestions what tools they might have used (or might be used in general) to create those? [0] https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer/blob/main/docs/l...
    comment by c7b · 2023-01-09 · in CDC File Transfer
  12. The documentation in the code itself is pretty great as well: https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer/blob/main/fastcd...
    comment by zmmmmm · 2023-01-09 · in CDC File Transfer