[Leaplist] rsyncd

[Jason Boxman]

On Thursday 14 August 2008 16:34:07 John Simpson wrote:
> On 2008-08-14, at 0658, Fred Moore wrote:
> > Is anyone running an rsynd daemon?  If so what are the security risks.
> > According to the man page for rsyncd it must run as root?   This
> > concerns me.. any comments..Fred
>
> you DO NOT NEED to run "rsyncd" if you just want to use "rsync" for
> backups.
>
> http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml
>
>
> the only people who need to run "rsyncd" are people who host publicly
> accessible files, such as OS mirrors.

Forced command is excellent.

As John demonstrates above, it's not too difficult to roll your own backup 
solution with `rsync`.  Personally, I have been using Dirvish[1] for backups 
since 2004.  It is a wrapper itself around `rsync`, but manages most of the 
image backup stuff for you.

[1] http://wiki.edseek.com/howto:dirvish


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