Question about exluding a directory in script

[dnanian]

Neither of those techniques will work.

The best thing to do is to invest in something like iPartition, which can do a "live partition" of the data. It's much better to isolate your backup from your real data for many reasons, not the least of which is that you can restore, in an emergency, using simple tools like Disk Utility that don't allow you to be selective about what you're copying.

But, if you must isolate this one folder, you can do so by creating a symlink -- NOT an alias -- to it from the original volume. SuperDuper! won't replace a folder with a symlink to that folder, and will therefore leave it alone.

You should test this on something else first to make sure you get it right. The way to make the symlink would be, in Terminal, assuming the backup drive is called "Backup":

ln -s "/Volumes/Backup/STORAGE" /STORAGE

Translated, this means "create a symbolic link to the folder STORAGE on the volume "Backup" in the root of my current volume".

That'll work. But, I want to emphasize again that isolating backup from data is, without question, the preferred solution.

Make sense?