Question about rsync

I'm trying to set up a backup/mirroring system for my home LAN. I
want all the computers to mirror certain directories to a "server"
machine using rsync.

A lot of the web sites out there explaining how to do this kind of
thing use inetd on the server to create an rsync daemon. However,
I'm not clear what the advantage is of using an rsync daemon over
just using rsync directly on the client machines with ssh as the
transport. Setting up the daemon seems to be an extra complication,
without any advantage I can discern. Yet, many of the web sites
don't even discuss the alternative, as if it were obvious that
using the daemon were the right approach.

Am I missing something?
.

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