Paul Mantz wrote:
>
> The Rsync module that BackupPC uses is actually a command line wrapper
> to rsync, so updating the rsync binary will subsequently update the
> module. I'm not sure if any features, flags, etc. were added that
> would require a new version, even.
No, it is much more complicated than that. It starts the remote side
with an ssh command, but the backuppc side is a re-implementation in
perl that knows how to do the block-checksum comparison against the
compressed local copy while the remote is working with an uncompressed copy.
--
Les Mikesell
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