Add more notes and state my goal

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+Starting this repo to keep notes about how I got rsync working on Windows.
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+My next planned step is to create a fully-automated script which will help anyone to run this on their machine (rather than distributing binaries, which I don't want to do).
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+### How to get RSync on Windows:
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+- install cygwin (enable rsync package)
+- grab those files from `c:\cygwin\bin`
+  - rsync.exe
+  - cygwin1.dll
+  - cygiconv-2.dll
+  - (you can double check the list of required dlls using [dependency walker](http://www.dependencywalker.com))
+- uninstall cygwin
+
+### How to use
+
+Here's an example call from a Mac OS X machine:
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+```
+rsync -qrlP --delete local-folder user@windows-server-ip:/cygdrive/c/target-folder --rsync-path=c:/tools/rsync.exe
+```