Newbie questions

Sorry if a lot of this sounds pretty lame. I really don't have much of a technical background and I just stumbled on this board. I was also unsure how to search to see if my questions had been answered previously. Any help (responses, links, etc.) would be greatly appreciated.

I have cwRsync installed and was hoping to modify the batch file to handle a few things.

 1. I'm interested in syncing data that is local with a network drive that uses a different username and password. The username is "Mike" and the IP is 192.168.1.100. The drive name is mounted as "linux" (i can browse to http://192.168.1.100 or http://linux and get similar results).

If I'm interested in copying everything from:

/cygdrive/c/temp/

to:

/var/www/temp/

on the linux server, i assume i need to set an ssh-user (as i'd seen in previous examples). The following doesn't seem to work for me:

rsync -avz -e "ssh -l Mike" /cygdrive/c/Temp/ linux:/var/www/synctest/

I receive the following error:

sh: line 1: rsync: command not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453)

2. Ultimately, what I'd like to accomplish is to upload files from this linux server to a remote server for back-up purposes. For example, I'd like to copy files from here:

linux:/var/www/project/

to here:

www.mysite.com/project/client01/

and here:

www.mysite.com/project/client02/

Where, 99% of the files are the same, and 1% need to have client-specific changes to the files.

I'd love to do this from my windows machine, connect to the linux computer using the "Mike" username and password, and sync to the remote server using a different username and password. I don't know anything about creating modules, so if that's preferred for this...please help point me to a good lay-person description of how to go about this.

Any and all help you provide is graciously appreciated. Please let me know if you need further information. The below is my modified batch file, for your convenience in troubleshooting:

 @ECHO OFF
REM *****************************************************************
REM
REM CWRSYNC.CMD - Batch file template to start your rsync command (s).
REM
REM By Tevfik K. (http://itefix.no)
REM *****************************************************************

REM Make environment variable changes local to this batch file
SETLOCAL

REM ** CUSTOMIZE ** Specify where to find rsync and related files (C:\CWRSYNC)
SET CWRSYNCHOME=C:\PROGRAM FILES\cwRsync

REM Set CYGWIN variable to 'nontsec'. That makes sure that permissions
REM on your windows machine are not updated as a side effect of cygwin
REM operations.
SET CYGWIN=nontsec

REM Set HOME variable to your windows home directory. That makes sure
REM that ssh command creates known_hosts in a directory you have access.
SET HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

REM Make cwRsync home as a part of system PATH to find required DLLs
SET CWOLDPATH=%PATH%
SET PATH=%CWRSYNCHOME%\BIN;%PATH%

REM Windows paths may contain a colon (:) as a part of drive designation and
REM backslashes (example c:\, g:\). However, in rsync syntax, a colon in a
REM path means searching for a remote host. Solution: use absolute path 'a la unix',
REM replace backslashes (\) with slashes (/) and put -/cygdrive/- in front of the
REM drive letter:
REM
REM Example : C:\WORK\* --> /cygdrive/c/@temp/*
REM
REM Example 1 - rsync recursively to a unix server with an openssh server :
REM
       rsync -avz -e "ssh -l mike"  /cygdrive/c/Temp/ linux:/var/www/synctest/
REM
REM Example 2 - Local rsync recursively
REM
REM       rsync -r /cygdrive/c/work/ /cygdrive/d/work/doc/
REM
REM Example 3 - rsync to an rsync server recursively :
REM    (Double colons?? YES!!)
REM
REM       rsync -r /cygdrive/c/doc/ remotehost::module/doc
REM
REM Rsync is a very powerful tool. Please look at documentation for other options.
REM

REM ** CUSTOMIZE ** Enter your rsync command(s) here