Rsync command line to optain a bootable snow leopard clone

Hello,
I want to do a bootable clone of my snow leopard system on an external hard drive. I am doing this from a shell script as I am doing other things via the script before.
To accomplish this I am using rsync 3.0.6.
Here is the command I am using: (from http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html )
sudo rsync -xrlptgoEv --progress --delete / /Volumes/Backup
But the resulted clone won't boot at all (blue screen) What am I doing wrong ?
Should I add something to the command line ?
Also, do you know which folders I should exclude from the backup ?
Thanks for your answers

Did you Bless the System Folder after the Clone?
sudo bless --folder "/Volumes/Clone of Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices"
I use the following rsync options:
/usr/local/bin/rsync -aNHAXv --one-file-system --fileflags --force-change --delete
--exclude='.Spotlight-V100' --exclude='/.fseventsd' --exclude='/Volumes/*'
--exclude='/private/var/vm/*' --exclude='/private/tmp/*'
--human-readable --stats --progress "$source" "$destination"
You may need to compile rsync 3.0.6 as follows (see: also http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10383609#10383609 )
Follow these instructions in Terminal on both the client and server to
download and compile rsync 3.0.?:
Download and unarchive rsync and its patches
Move patches directory to rsync-3.0.?
cd rsync-3.0.?
Apply patches relevant to preserving Mac OS X metadata
patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff
patch -p1 <patches/crtimes.diff
Configure, make, install
(note: creation times are not preserved in x64, so…)
./prepare-source
CFLAGS=-m32 CPPFLAGS=-m32 CCASFLAGS=-m32 ./configure
CFLAGS=-m32 CPPFLAGS=-m32 CCASFLAGS=-m32 make
sudo make install
Verify your installation
rsync --version
By default, rsync will be installed in /usr/local/bin. If that isn't
in your path, you will need to call your new version of rsync by its
absolute path (/usr/local/bin/rsync).
Also, be aware that rsync 3.0.6 does properly not handle the metadata for the new HFS+ filesystem compression.
Sub-test: creation time ... ok
Verifying: hfs-compression ...
Sub-test: decmpfs xattr ... not preserved
Sub-test: UF_COMPRESSED flag ... not set
Sub-test: file contents ... match
Sub-test: creation time ... ok
Sub-test: modification time ... ok
Sub-test: hard link inode ... ok
Sub-test: hard link decmpfs xattr ... not preserved
Sub-test: hard link UF_COMPRESSED flag ... not set
Sub-test: hard link modification time ... ok
ok
Verifying: hfs-compression_large ...
Sub-test: decmpfs xattr ... not preserved
Sub-test: UF_COMPRESSED flag ... not set
Sub-test: file contents ... match
Sub-test: creation time ... ok
Sub-test: modification time ... ok
Sub-test: hard link inode ... ok
Sub-test: hard link decmpfs xattr ... not preserved
Sub-test: hard link UF_COMPRESSED flag ... not set
Sub-test: hard link modification time ... ok

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