[nylug-talk] rsync daemon or ssh ?

[Henning Follmann]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:35:13PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote:
> 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.
> 
So if rsync runs on both sides (which i just confirmed - I din't know
that). Which of the two daemons builds the hash for the files?
Or are the two hold a copy of it?
If we are talking 100 bytes / file * 1.7 * 10**6 we are talking about
170 MB for this process, right? 
Hmm don't like that - but after all I was doing the same thing before.


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