First you don't need the rsync daemon to use rsync. In fact you might be better off not using it and using ssh instead.
Here's the command I use to sync my laptop's documents with a back-up repository:
rsync -v -r -p -t -o -g -e "/usr/bin/ssh -C"--exclude "AutoRecovery*" \
--exclude "Word\ Work\ File*"--exclude "Microsoft\ User\ Data/*" \
--exclude "Entourage\ Temp/*" $HOME/Documents/*\
user@example.org:/home/user/Documents/