I am not currently subscribed so please email me below. First, my only experience with rsync has been older versions (e.g. 1.7.x) which did not allow daemon mode, so please bear with me.
My problem is that I would like to mirror large quantities of data on a remote machine to a local one, but I don't care about encrypting the data itself. I only care about securing the connection from the authentication point of view. Okay, I must admit that I like SSH because it protects the end user from a variety of attacks, but what I'm saying is that I don't care if people look at the data. Typically, this mirroring has been done using just the local client's rsync program in conjunction with ssh (both on the client and sshd on the remote machine): rsync --delete --rsh ssh --rsync-path /path_to_rsync/rsync -rlpt sourcedir remote_host/target_dir/ The problem, however, is that due to the large size of the data, and the slowness typically suffered under encryption, the remote machine crawls to a halt or is seriously impaired. Working with small numbers of files or infrequent mirrors, the encryption is not a problem, but it gets to be a burden when you're doing this every night on a lot of data. Some have suggested using something like 'blowfish -c' instead of the default to speed things up by perhaps a factor of 3. Anyway, here is my question: Does running rsync in daemon mode on the remote host preclude the need to use SSH from the client? If so, how secure is this versus using rsync in non daemon mode with SSH? I have considered building SSH to not use encryption, but I was thinking rsync in daemon mode might obviate the need to have to use SSH if it can still be made secure. Thanks. George Sinclair | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
