I do my backups with `rsync` and used the option `--files-from` to define a list of directories that should be synced. Right now, I am planning to extend the command by the `--exclude` option, but it does not work.

More specifically, the `include-list.txt` file already contains the directory `/home/user/shared/` and I want to exclude the new subdirectory `/home/user/shared/BIG_DATA/`.

Here is the command that does not do the job.

```
rsync -azvvr \
    --files-from '/home/user/BACKUP_MNGMT/include-list.txt' \
    --exclude '/home/user/BACKUP_MNGMT/exclude-list.txt' \
    -e ssh / user@server:/home/user/Backup

```