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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
