[gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

I am not sure how to exclude a directory on an ntfs partition from
being accessed during rsync.  The attributes do not seem to be right
and it comes up with this error:
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'rsync -a -l -v --exclude "/mnt/User_WinXP/System Volume Information"
-e "ssh -c blowfish -l root" /mnt/User_WinXP/
10.10.10.25:/home/httpd/backup'

sending incremental file list
rsync: opendir "/mnt/User_WinXP/System Volume Information" failed:
Permission denied (13)

sent 975792 bytes  received 3760 bytes  23048.28 bytes/sec
total size is 11957666624  speedup is 12207.28
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous
errors) (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7]
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Is my syntax wrong?

This what mount shows for the partition (I use ntfs-3g):

/dev/sda7 on /mnt/User_WinXP type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
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Regards,
Mick