On 2014-09-25 12:17, xpac wrote:
> I have a small production environment currently with six Centos 6
> servers, one of which also serves as my BackupPC server.  Currently I
> have it configured to use rsync as the transfer method, I'm just
> wondering if it makes sense to switch over to rsyncd?  More
> specifically, what advantages, if any could I expect?
> 
> I've googled a bit and found varying opinions but for people using
> rsync and rsyncd for things other than strictly BackupPC so I thought
> this would be a good place to ask.

This has come up a few times, so you may want to check the archives for 
a complete answer, but the short answer is: rsyncd has no advantages 
over rsync+ssh (except for the dubious advantage of not having to run 
sshd) and imposes additional requirements.

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