Some weeks ago I wrote about backing up your important files on Ubuntu to Google Drive. It’s a trivial process that will save your hide on the day disaster strikes. You lose your laptop unexpectedly ...

I don't think so, I'm pretty sure rsync works by running rsync on the remote side when it connects so it only works with either a remote shell (rsh, ssh, etc) or rsyncd.

Andrew Tridgell's rsync is a useful file-transfer tool, one that has no encryption support of its own but is easily “wrapped” (tunneled) by encryption tools such as SSH and Stunnel. What ...