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@@ -193,6 +193,33 @@ The absolute path to the file system being backed up.
A whitespace-separated list of directories and/or files in the
.B \fIitem\fB_dir
directory.
+.TP
+.B \fIitem\fB_exclude
+A whitespace-separated list of file names (or
+.BR glob (3)
+patterns) to exclude from archivation. This is translated to
+a list of
+.B \-\-exclude
+options to
+.BR tar (1).
+Make sure to quote globbing patterns as you would have done in shell,
+to prevent them from being expanded too early. For example:
+.sp
+.nf
+.in +2
+system_exclude="'var/spool/mail/*'"
+.in
+.fi
+.sp
+.TP
+.B \fIitem\fB_exclude_from
+A list of files to read exclusion patterns from. It is translated
+into a list of
+.B \-\-exclude\-from
+options.
+.TP
+.B \fIitem\fB_tar_options
+A list of additional options to pass to tar. Use this with caution.
.PP
For example:
.sp

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