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...actually the behaviour I expect. But it seems that rsync actually descend through all section of the hierarchy of some folders I excluded. The command I used : $ rsync -aH --del --ignore-errors --filter="- /lost+found/*" --filter="- /.snapshot/*" /data/orig_disks/vol-opt/ /data/bckp_disks/vol-opt/ The problem : $ lsof | grep rsync | grep snapshot rsync 1599 root 3r DIR 0,25 12288 12117707 /data/orig_disks/vol-opt/opt/.snapshot/some/directory/somefile rsync does not transfer files from this directory as expected, but it take hours to visit it......