Rsyncing without RSH or SSH ?

[Philip Rhoades]

Brian,


On 2017-03-21 07:35, Brian K. White via rsync wrote:
>> Any possibility of a version of rsync that doesn't need RSH or SSH?
> 
> rsync already doesn't need rsh or ssh.
> 
> * On host A (server, with room to accept big uploads):
> 
> Edit /etc/rsyncd.conf, add this to the end:
> [hostb]
>         path = /srv/rsync/hostb
>         auth users = hostb
> 
> Edit /etc/rsyncd.secrets, add this line:
> hostb:hostbpass
> 
> mkdir -p /srv/rsync/hostb
> 
> sudo rsync --daemon
> 
> 
> * On host B (client, uploading to server):
> 
> RSYNC_PASSWORD=hostbpass rsync -avz /path/to/dir hostb at hosta::hostb
> 
> Replace "hosta" with whatever hostname or ip address for "Host A".
> 
> On hosta, the rsync --daemon wil listen on port 873 and the traffic
> will go direct from rsync on hostb to rsync on hosta, no rsh or ssh.


Excellent!  Thanks for that . . I love rsync . . it is so clever . .


> For single huge files like dd images though, dd|netcat is a lot faster.


Right.

Regards,

Phil.
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