You don't need the trailing /* with rsync.  I use that in a few places, but 
only because it excludes everything under the directory, but backs up the 
directory itself.  Useful for restoring directory meta-data.

Note that the excludes are simply passed to the underlying transport (rsync, 
tar, etc)... see "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" in the rsync man page for how 
they will get handled.

Mine typically looks like this (which is what the examples in the docs look 
like):

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
     '/mydata' => [
       '/vmware',
       '/xen',
       '/kvm'
     ]
};

-- 
Carl D Cravens (ccravens AT excelii DOT com), Ext 228 (620.327.1228)
Lead System Architect

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