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...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 / . I want to exclude the /sys, /proc, and /mnt/sysbackup directories and *everything* underneath them from being backed up to the /mnt/sysbackup directory. The kicker is that if I run that command manually like so: ( cd /mnt/sysbackup; /usr/bin/rsync -v --progress --delete --stats --e...

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2647 ------- Additional Comments From vanes002@umn.edu 2005-04-25 18:50 ------- A possible explanation is if the single-quotes are being retained in the --exclude values instead of being removed by whatever shell you are using for scripting. So rsync tries to exclude '/proc/' instead of /proc/ In your case, the quotes aren't even