I have just verified this, and had no issues with rsync as wsrep_sst_method. I am using percona 5.5.37 from Ubuntu Trusty and rsync 3.1.0 from trusty too. (Had to switch to rsync from xtrabackup-v2 due to ipv6 issues, as explained in Bug #1380747).
I have just verified this, and had no issues with rsync as wsrep_sst_method. I am using percona 5.5.37 from Ubuntu Trusty and rsync 3.1.0 from trusty too. (Had to switch to rsync from xtrabackup-v2 due to ipv6 issues, as explained in Bug #1380747).