p.s. I just do straight rsync over SSH to OSX. But know that whatever permissions you use to access the client (or start rsyncd if you go that route) needs permissions on the client data as well.
I think I've conquered the Thecus as a client and now for the next challenging client: a macbook pro. Also via rsyncd. I have the daemon running and what looks like a good rsyncd.conf file for the macbook pro. I'm not using "secrets" and that seems to work as a philosophy for the Thecus.
However, the backup starts and immediately ends with this error:
Can't open log file /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/bobs-macbook-pro.local/XferLOG.0
The thing is there are two forward slashes in this error note which doesn't make sense. I believe the correct route should be:
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