diff --git a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/centos-mirror-update b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/centos-mirror-update
index 519017b33c..1f1a13aa35 100755
--- a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/centos-mirror-update
+++ b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/centos-mirror-update
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ $K5START ${RSYNC} \
     --delete \
     --delete-excluded \
     --exclude="isos" \
+    --exclude="ppc64le*" \
     --exclude=".*" \
     $MIRROR $BASE/8-stream
 
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ $K5START ${RSYNC} \
     --delete \
     --delete-excluded \
     --exclude="isos" \
+    --exclude="ppc64le*" \
     --exclude=".*" \
     $MIRROR $BASE/8
 
@@ -78,8 +80,8 @@ $K5START ${RSYNC} \
 MIRROR="rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos"
 MIRROR_ALTARCH="rsync://mirror.dal.nexril.net/centos-altarch/"
 REPOS="7 altarch/7"
-ALTARCHS="aarch64 ppc64le"
-ALTARCHS_IGNORED="armhfp i386 power9 ppc64 x86_64" # altarch/kernel/ has x86_64 dir we do not want
+ALTARCHS="aarch64"
+ALTARCHS_IGNORED="armhfp i386 power9 ppc64 ppc64le x86_64" # altarch/kernel/ has x86_64 dir we do not want
 
 for REPO in $REPOS; do
     if ! [ -f $BASE/$REPO ]; then