diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 79996489f..72124a8ac 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
 
   config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
-  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/home/vagrant/go/src/github.com/influxdb/telegraf"
+  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/home/vagrant/go/src/github.com/influxdb/telegraf",
+    type: "rsync",
+    rsync__args: ["--verbose", "--archive", "--delete", "-z", "--safe-links"],
+    rsync__exclude: ["./telegraf", ".vagrant/"]
 
   config.vm.provision "shell", name: "sudo", inline: <<-SHELL
     chown -R vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/go