----
You probably still have set
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/'];

What you want instead is
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/home/michael/'];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {'/home/michael' => ['.Private']};

That's just a guess as I ran into something similiar...

Regards
Daniel 
----

Thanks Daniel, I can give that a try. Is the GUI really so non-intuitive that 
the target files need to be defined twice? I thought $Conf{RsyncShareName} 
defined the name of the primary share fs itself, and $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} 
would define the specific directories or files to backup, since the 
documentation is clear as day on this:

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = undef;
    List of directories or files to backup. If this is defined, only these 
directories or files will be backed up.

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