comp.os.linux.networking

Michael Zawrotny wrote:
> Robert Harris wrote:
>> You need to run a rsync daemon on the server in any case; your choice is
>> whether to have it running all the time (from startup) or to be invoked
>> by inetd when an rsync client connects.
>
> Actually, you don't have to have rsyncd running on the server if you
> use ssh as the transport and the rsync binary in the user's path. My
> users routinely slog tons of data across our network without me having
> to setup rsync repositories for them.
>
>
> Mike
>
Ah - but rsync on the server is run in daemon mode as rsyncd while it is
talking to your rsync client. The transport is the data transport; rsync
on the client figures out what needs transporting by comparing notes
with the rsync daemon on the server.

Robert