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Using tar you can exclude directories by placing a tag file in any directory that should be skipped.

Create tag files,

touch /sys/.exclude_from_backup
touch /proc/.exclude_from_backup

Then,

tar -czf backup.tar.gz --exclude-tag-all=.exclude_from_backup *

Gleaned from https://stackoverflow.com/a/13296077

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