suggestion: my excludes, necessary / useful

[kversl]

To successfully complete a timemachine backup of my Ubuntu home directory, I had to exclude certain special files which can't be backupped. I maintain an --exclude-from file, to get my backup done:

necessary excludes to finish a backup of my Ubuntu desktop's home directory without error
[$USER]/.dbus
*.sock

other excludes, to make it nicer
/Trash/
/.Trash/
[$USER]/.cache/
**/*cache/
**/*Cache/
**/*CACHE/
lost+found

other excludes, especially because I have netatalk running:
[$USER]/.AppleDB/
[$USER]/.AppleDesktop/
**/.AppleDouble/
[$USER]/Network\ Trash\ Folder/
/Temporary\ Items/
.DS_Store

remark:
Not sure if a pattern like [$USER] will work. In my case I have simply written the literal name of my SOURCE directory.

[TylerRick]

Looks like you can do this already, by adding your custom rsync options to the end...

timemachine [-vd]  <source> <dest> -- --exclude-from=excludes

... though I would like to propose that we automatically include the -F command:

       -F     The -F option is a shorthand for adding two --filter rules to your command.  The first time it is used is a shorthand for this rule:

                  --filter='dir-merge /.rsync-filter'

              This tells rsync to look for per-directory .rsync-filter files that have been sprinkled through the hierarchy and use their rules to filter the files in the transfer.