diff --git a/ccollect.sh b/ccollect.sh
index 6959fa0..651cd8c 100755
--- a/ccollect.sh
+++ b/ccollect.sh
@@ -496,9 +496,9 @@ while [ "${i}" -lt "${no_sources}" ]; do
    fi
 
    # set time when we really begin to backup, not when we began to remove above
-   destination_name="${INTERVAL}.$(${CDATE}).$$"
-   destination_dir="${ddir}/${destination_name}"
-   destination_full="${destination}/${destination_name}"
+   export destination_name="${INTERVAL}.$(${CDATE}).$$"
+   export destination_dir="${ddir}/${destination_name}"
+   export destination_full="${destination}/${destination_name}"
 
    # give some info
    _techo "Beginning to backup, this may take some time..."
diff --git a/doc/ccollect.text b/doc/ccollect.text
index 3bfef96..38a93fb 100644
--- a/doc/ccollect.text
+++ b/doc/ccollect.text
@@ -599,6 +599,12 @@ respectively after doing the backup for *this specific* source.
 If you want to have pre-/post-exec before and after *all*
 backups, see above for general configuration.
 
+The `post_exec` script can access the following exported variables from
+ccollect:
+
+- destination_name: contains the base directory name (`daily.20091031-1013.24496`)
+- destination_dir: full path (`/tmp/ccollect/daily.20091031-1013.24496`)
+- destination_full: like 'destination_dir', but prepended with the remote_host, if set (`host:/tmp/ccollect/daily.20091031-1013.24496` or `/tmp/ccollect/daily.20091031-1013.24496`)
 
 Example:
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------