> It seems like you trying as hard as possible to not use any 
> BackupPC- specific functionality. If you just want to do a 
> plain rsync with the --delete switch, why don't you just do 
> that? Seems like that would be a whole lot simpler than using 
> BackupPC and trying to change it into a plain native rsync binary.

Hehehe... I understand your point of view, and it really sound like I
want BackupPC to work like a simple rsync. This is because I'm sort of
"migrating" from rsnapshot to BackupPC and thus thought I could pass
over the exact same command line syntax.

> BackupPC keeps several complete backups. The number of 
> backups that are kept around is configurable. Files will be 
> deleted when they are not in any backups anymore, so there is 
> no need to use --delete in the rsync arguments and AFAIK 
> File::RsyncP indeed doesn't even support that switch.

I got it! ;-)
Holger explained everything very clearly in its post...

Regards,
Flavio

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