Source: backuppc-rsync Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian BackupPC Team Uploaders: Jonathan Wiltshire , Axel Beckert Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libacl1-dev, libattr1-dev, libpopt-dev, zlib1g-dev, Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Homepage: https://github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/backuppc-rsync Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/backuppc-rsync.git Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: backuppc-rsync Architecture: any Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Enhances: backuppc (>= 4) Provides: rsync-bpc Conflicts: rsync-bpc Replaces: rsync-bpc Description: patched rsync for BackupPC version 4 rsync-bpc (as it is called upstream) is a patched variant of rsync that has been developed specifically for server-side use with BackupPC (https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc) version 4. It extends the normal rsync so that it understands BackupPC 4's internal data structures on disk and can directly write to it. . You do neither need to use nor to install this package manually. It is pulled in as dependency where needed. . It is also no problem to install it in parallel with the normal rsync as it does not install any binary in the common search path ($PATH), just in a dedicated directory under /usr/libexec/. . In terms of functionality it replaces the less performant Perl module File::RsyncP (package libfile-rsyncp-perl) which was used by BackupPC version 3 on the server side.