set up rsync daemon

start_rsyncd.sh

/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --config=rsyncd.conf


rsyncd.conf (server runs on port 9873)

pid file=/home/vic/opt/rsync/pid
log file=/home/vic/opt/rsync/log
lock file=/home/vic/rsync/lock
port=9873
address=192.168.1.100
timeout=600

[data]
path=/home/vic/tmp
use chroot=false
read only=no
transfer logging=yes
max connections=1


rsync client test
rsync -v foo rsync://192.168.1.100:9873/data

The power of rsync with hardlink

rsync -aHvz -e ssh /var/src /var/src-hardlinks
remote_id@192.168.1.1:/home/users/foo/

The above would copy the directory "src" and "src-hardlinks" (which holds all the hardlinks) recursively to 1921.68.1.1's folder.