Boniforti Flavio wrote at about 09:05:27 +0100 on Friday, November 27, 2009:
 > Hello Jeffrey,
 > 
 > [cut]
 > 
 > > Why would you go through all the overhead of BackupPC just to 
 > > rsync a single file every day?
 > 
 > So you mean that if I would backup every night, using rsync, the image
 > of my PC, I wouldn't have a huge quantity of transferred bytes, as rsync
 > would only transfer the bits that have changed, right?
 > 
 > This would be sufficient for me, as I wouldn't benefit of backuppc's
 > pooling...

That is *precisely* what rsync does.
Rsync is *very* powerful with many interesting options.
If you were not aware of this defining feature of rsync, I suggest you
read up on rsync to make sure you understand it and use it right.

Good luck!

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