If you follow the money, I think you will find it is also in the direction of stopping people transporting large amounts of cash and valuables in and out of the country. Nothing to do with terrorism at all.

They have to make the choice between arthritis and prostate cancer. It makes them cranky wankers.

You would be better off switching to rdiff-backup after the initial sync. Then you get versions, a web interface for restores, a nagios plugin to check its working for you (instead of reading logs!). Fully managed versioned backups. Works on pretty much all platforms too. http://www.rdiff-backup.org