Ok, let us try one question at a time for now.

I had written in my first post:
> I have manually run:
>
> "sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f backupclient"
>
>
> and I get confused as I am seeing /proc and /dev stuff in the verbose 
> output. Is backuppc backing up those directories?
>   
Any thoughts on why I am seeing the /proc, /dev and other excluded 
directories being scanned in the verbose output? Are all directories 
scanned and those directories that are excluded then not backed up and 
should just ignore this verbose output?

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