Automator gets stuck at shell script
I found this link helpful to solve a similar problem I was having:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1867978

I tried adding exit 0 to the end of my Automator shell script and it didn't seem to make a difference one way or the other.

After I read the above link I added this to the command in my Automator shell script:

&gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;


It worked great. My Automator shell script now terminates normally.

In the above question, I believe the rsync command could be changed to:

rsync -aovE --delete /Volumes/STORAGE/Batting/Volumes/home/Backup &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;


If you wanted to log the output from your command, as I did, to a file /var/log/rsync.log then you could modify it to this:

rsync -aovE --delete /Volumes/STORAGE/Batting/Volumes/home/Backup &gt;/var/log/rsync.log &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;