Help for Beginners: A Simple Way of Installing the Latest Version of Rsync?

[s.noble at free.fr]

Hello,

Please bear with me because I'm no command-line guru. Quite the opposite.

I was wondering if there existed a simple, straightforward way for a novice to
install the latest version of rsync (3.0.9) onto Mac OS X. After searching
around the Web, I found that the following site offers such an installer --
http://www.themacplace.co.uk/downloads.html --
but the proposed version of rsync (3.0.6) is not quite the latest one.

I'm using rsync to back up Mac boxes to a Linux box. I learnt about rsync and
how to use it, then got it working, only to find that Apple ships OS X with a
very outdated version of the programme (2.6.9), causing problems, for example,
with extended attributes.

Being a novice, I have no need to install Apple's XCode (the MacPorts programme,
on macports.org, would appear to require this, as far as I can understand), and
I would just like a simple way of getting the latest version of rsync up and
running.

Any help anyone would be kind enough to provide would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

S.N.