Further testing has determined that the rsync command is working as advertised. backuppc uses a Perl implementation of File::RsyncP that communicates with rsync. The Ubuntu port for ARM processors appears to label a significant number of blocks as changed even through the source and target files are identical. The problem has been reported to Craig Barratt and the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list.
> I have been using backuppc (rsync protocol) to backup up a Linux web > server onto a local server for a number of years. I recall that data > volumes were quite low (about 40MB), regardless of whether I was doing > full or incremental backups. I recently switched to both a new web server > and backuppc server. Early morning traffic volumes when backuppc runs are > much higher than expected - I have seen volumes as high as 450MB.
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