Well that was a huge waste of time. Attempting to import the backups from the 
local store using this TarClientCmd:
/usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -cvf - -C /home/backup/$host/cur$shareName . --totals

did appear to import all the files, but when I switch it back to rsync and 
scheduled another backup with the existing server it dumps these errors:
Unexpected call BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO->unlink [filename]
[repeated 10's of thousands of times]

>>From the email list [1] it looks like this means that all data will be 
>>transferred again. Exactly what I'm attempting to avoid.  :( 

[1]: 
https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/[email protected]/

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