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...to back up one filesystem tree to another on the same disk. The catch is that the destination tree is mounted under the source tree. To prevent the backup from getting a copy of itself, I have tried to use the --exclude option, but to no avail. The general procedure for my script is to cd to the destinateion directory (in this case: /mnt/backup) and rsync the source directory (in this case: /) to the destination directory. Here's the command that gets run: /usr/bin/rsync -v --progress --delete --stats --exclude='/proc/' --exclude='/sys/' --exclude='/mnt/sysbackup/' -aS / ....