On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Shawn Fertch wrote: > I'm looking at the man pages on both Slackware 10.1 and RHELv3 systems > with the following specifications: > > --exclude FILE > exclude file FILE > -X, --exclude-from FILE > exclude files listed in FILE Thus "FILE" is a plain text file containing a list of directories or files that are not to be backed up. I think that is different from your original interpretation. Mike