[ALUG] Excluding a directory with cpio

I am trying to write some automation into a tape based DR process for an elderly SCO unix Box I have an archive of the live systems complete filesystem which I can recover using a carefully formatted cpio command. However I want to exclude a few of the top level directories from this recovery (mostly /stand). I've worked out how to use the find command to extract only certain files, but how do I do the opposite ?