Resolution!
For the benefit of other forum readers, I'm posting the text of a conversation Dave and I had via private email (which I really should have conducted in the forum, I guess...)
I sent Dave a copy of my script...
Dave said: "Are you trying to create a Sandbox with this stuff, Gary?"
I replied:
Dave,
At one stage I started to try out a Sandbox, which didn't work, so I then tried a straight Backup, ignoring some folders.
I may have inadvertently mashed the scripts together and come up with a monster.
Let me try a straight Backup (ignoring some folders) from scratch and see what happens...
Thanks for your time.
Gary
And then:
OK.
I tried a straight Backup (ignoring some folders), setting up the script from scratch and it seems to have worked perfectly!
I must have got my previous script confused with an earlier attempt at a Sandbox script. Now I feel really stupid - I'm usually better than this at scripting stuff.
Anyway, many thanks, Dave, for your patience and help at pointing me in the right direction.
All the best,
Gary
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