What's wrong with my exclude rules?

[Danny Sauer]

So, given this (broken up for email - it's all one line in the
script):

/usr/bin/rsync -q -a -e ssh -H --delete --delete-excluded
 --ignore-errors --include "/" --exclude "/proc/*"
 --exclude "/proc/bus/usb/*" --include "/boot/*" 
 --exclude "/dev/pts/*" --exclude "/dev/shm/*" 
 --exclude '/tmp/*' --exclude '/var/tmp/*' 
 --exclude '/usr/tmp/*' --exclude '/var/cache/*' 
 --exclude '*~' 
 root at router:/ /mnt/backup/router

Why do I have this:

 gutenberg backup # ls -l /mnt/backup/router/proc | head -n 10
 total 140634
 dr-xr-xr-x   3 root    root          336 Feb 23 11:18 1
 dr-xr-xr-x   3 root    root          312 Feb 23 11:18 10
 dr-xr-xr-x   3     501     501       336 Feb 23 11:18 1059
 dr-xr-xr-x   3 root    root          312 Feb 23 11:18 11
 dr-xr-xr-x   3 postfix postfix       336 Feb 23 11:18 1448
 dr-xr-xr-x   3 root    root          312 Feb 23 11:18 15
 dr-xr-xr-x   3 root    root          336 Feb 23 11:18 1607
 dr-xr-xr-x   3 root    root          336 Feb 23 11:18 1609
 dr-xr-xr-x   3 root    root          312 Feb 23 11:18 2

I've clearly listed --exclude "/proc/*" and --delete-excluded, but
there's still stuff in /proc.  I've tried --exclude="/proc" and
--exclude "/proc/" - but friggin' /proc is getting copied every time.
None of the other excludes seem to be followed either - which is a
royal pain.  Is it the order (or the --include /)?  What's the
precedence of --include and --exclude?

Also, could the man pages maybe be updated so that they're consistent
with the use of '=' after --exclude and --exclude-from, or maybe note
whether the '=' is required or optional? :)

Thanks.
--Danny