On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:20 AM, James Kyle wrote:
> Morning,
>
> I think I've found a bug in BackupPC 3.2 (beta0 and beta1). I seem to recall this being an issue in BackupPC 3.1 as well.
>
> If you do not tunnel over ssh, local backup paths with spaces fail due to both quoting and escaping.
>
> For example:
>
> /path/with space/in it/
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = /usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+
>
>
> rsync attempts to change directory into "/path/with\ space/in\ it/"
>
> The double quotes cause the \ to be interpreted literally as well as the space. Here's a typical error entry in XferLOG.bad.z:
>
> Remote[1]: rsync: change_dir "/path/with\ space/in\ it/" failed: No such file or directory (2)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -james
>
>
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