[Gllug] Does one need Rsync server to use Rsync?

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 4 Sep 2009, Hong Chyr wrote:
>Now, having read the rsync document over and over again, I can't seem to 
>figure out, why do the need for an Rsync (or rsync daemon)  server to do 
>rsync? Is it really necessary? What's the advantage over just using 
>Rsync as a commandline program?

There are one or two applications (discussed here) but generally
speaking rsync daemons are what we used to use before rsync-over-ssh
came along.

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