rsynch questions
 

Hi guys, good day and good week.

I want to setup a server where a number of machines/PCs will synchronize one of their local folder from the server. As i dig around i found out that the tool for such job is the rsync.

I did my homework and read about the particular tool, tutorials and i have some questions which hopefully someone could help me with.

1) i am confused as how do i setup the r.synch on the server. As far as i understood, you can either setup the rsync as a daemon on the server side or ssh and rsync from client - server.

If i choose to ssh and rsync from client - server, this means that i do not have to setup r.sync as a daemon on the server?

2) Why do people use xinetd for the r.synch if you can setup r.synch in daemon mode?

Thanks

1. It's called rsync, not rsynch, r.sync nor r.synch
2. Daemon mode is useful for "anonymous" rsync server, e.g. if the machines will only synch from the read-only folder to their local folder, and security is not an issue e.g. local netowrk, you can use rsync deamon.
3. If you need either encryption or authentication or read-write access to the "server", you need to use rsync+ssh.

Thanks for the quick replay @r0b0. For some weird reason i am stuck on calling r.sync "rsynch".

So i will be going for the option 3 since i dont want anyone to synchronize the specific folder from the server. Hence, if i got it right, i then do not need to setup r.sync in server mode on the server side...right?

i on it googling "r.sync with ssh"

1. It's called rsync, not r.sync
2. Yes, rsync+ssh is a safe bet. You don't really need to configure anything, just install ssh server and rsync packages and you are good to go.

LOLMAO

OK cheers m8