This is a wontfix upstream. Adding the ability to perform all the file manipulations remotely would be a lot of work and would have no advantage over simply running rsnapshot on the remote machine.
Note that the FAQ (http://rsnapshot.org/faq.html) has since been updated to describe one way to push backups to an rsnapshot instance on a remote machine: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1201443264.2328.72.camel%40localhost&forum_name=rsnapshot-discuss -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org