diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/mirrormanager2.cfg b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/mirrormanager2.cfg
index 2bdd602733..69c930b23f 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/mirrormanager2.cfg
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/mirrormanager2.cfg
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ CHECK_SESSION_IP = True
 
 # Specify additional rsync parameters for the crawler
 # # --timeout 14400: abort rsync crawl after 4 hours
-CRAWLER_RSYNC_PARAMETERS = '--no-motd --timeout 14400'
+CRAWLER_RSYNC_PARAMETERS = '--no-motd --timeout 14400 --exclude=lost+found'
 
 ###
 # Configuration options used by the crons