comp.os.linux.networking

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:10:10 -0600, Jim T. Kirk wrote:

> I'm trying to set up a backup/mirroring system for my home LAN. I
> want all the computers to mirror certain directories to a "server"
> machine using rsync.
>
> A lot of the web sites out there explaining how to do this kind of
> thing use inetd on the server to create an rsync daemon. However,
> I'm not clear what the advantage is of using an rsync daemon over
> just using rsync directly on the client machines with ssh as the
> transport. Setting up the daemon seems to be an extra complication,
> without any advantage I can discern. Yet, many of the web sites
> don't even discuss the alternative, as if it were obvious that
> using the daemon were the right approach.
>
> Am I missing something?

There is overhead ( and security ) by using rsh over ssh.

If you use rsyncd, it's faster ( non-ssh ) and you can do
things like list rsync directoy resources. I think that you
can mark things as ro too. rsyncd is more for apps that have
multiple users accessing the server.

I use rsync over ssh for 99% of my stuff.

jack

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