Hendrik Friedel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 3) The best choice was/is/seems to be to use rsyncd.
>> I got excellent network speed and all files were succesfully 
>> backed up. 
>> Compared to Samba you can use Includes and Excludes lists. So 
>> you get all the benefits from rsync, but save the extra work 
>> to setup SSH and root-access for the BackupPC user.
>>
>> So rsync is the way to go :-)
> 
> Sorry for the naiv question: 
> What's the difference between rsync and rsyncd as transfer method? (A link
> would be sufficient)

Rsyncd expects to talk to a standalone rsync in daemon mode; rsync 
expects to run over ssh.  On windows, rsync doesn't work right under 
cygwin sshd, so the standalone mode is the best approach.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    les AT futuresource DOT com

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