I looked into that module as well, but if I read it correctly, it did state that the developer was working on the EXCLUDE portion of it. So, in the mean time I went with the following code. If anybody has any other recommendations, where it can be portable, i would appreciate the feedback. 
my $source = 'c:/win/data';
my $to_dir= 'c:/temp/DATA';

use File::Path;

mkpath(${to_dir}) or die "mkdir '${to_dir}' failed: $!" if not -e $to_
+dir;  
open(FH,">${to_dir}/EXCLUDE.txt");
print FH ".lck\n";
close FH;

my $xcopy = $ENV{'systemroot'} . '\\system32\\xcopy.exe';
my $exclude="${to_dir}/EXCLUDE.txt";
$exclude =~ s/\//\\/g;
my $command = qq{("$xcopy" "$source" "$to_dir" /E /I /F /R /Y /EXCLUDE
+:$exclude)};

print $command . "\n";
system($command);
unlink $exclude;

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