[nylug-talk] rsync daemon or ssh ?

[Brian Mathis]

In both cases, rsync runs on both of the servers.  The difference is 
that over ssh the communication is secure, and, AFIAK, as a daemon it's 
not.  Daemons would usually be used if you are running some sort of a 
software distribution server that you want to give public access to -- 
not really the sort of thing you'd use for file backups.

Using SSH is just fine, and in this case, using an rsync daemon is 
unnecessary.  I think the speed would be similar.

-Brian Mathis


PS. On most recent versions of rsync, "--rsh=ssh" is the default, so you 
don't need that on the command line.


Henning Follmann wrote:
> I have a question about the nice tool rsync.
>
> I currently have two machines
> - rsync backup
> - content storage
>
> On content storage I have roughly 1.7 million files
>
> so far I start rsync via ssh on the backup system.
> rsync --rsh=ssh cs:/path /backup/path
>
> and that is working fine.
> Would it actually be better to start a rsync daemon on the content
> server? And what are the pros/cons of doing so?
> Would it speed up the transfer?
>
>
> Thanks for any form of informative conversation.
>
> Henning
>
>