[rdiff-backup-users] Question about excluding source directories

[Jim Hodapp]

I am trying to run an rdiff-backup command that excludes a set of  
directories (and all contents underneath these directories). The  
command is: rdiff-backup -b -v5 --print-statistics --exclude /usr1/ 
code/cvs --exclude /usr1/code/subversion-1.2.3 /usr1/code /usr1/ 
backup/svn

That does not seem to exclude /usr1/code/cvs nor /usr1/code/ 
subversion-1.2.3 at all or anything below them. Even if I just do the  
first exclude of --exclude /usr1/code/cvs, it doesn't work. What am I  
doing wrong?

Thanks,

Jim