Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Space in the directory name

[Scott Carpenter]

Adrian Klaver spake thusly on 02/11/2010 05:16 PM:
> On Thursday 11 February 2010 3:12:57 pm Cybertinus wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I've tried everything and nothing seams to work. How can I backup an
> > directory with a space in it's name? I've tried /path/to/dir\ with\
> > space/ or "/path/to/dir with space", but rdiff-backup crashes on this.
> > It can't find the correct directory. It either thinks that every
> > directory is a separate directory or it thinks that the " are part of
> > the directory name. Both cases make the backup fail. How to fix?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Cybertinus
>
> How about:
> /path/to/"dir with space"


I know rdiff-backup handles spaces in filenames fine in the tree, but 
was wondering if this was an issue just with the source dir as specified 
on the command line, so I tried with creating:

temp
-->A B
-->C

And creating file "A B/test.txt", and then:

temp$ rdiff-backup A\ B C

And that worked fine. (Note: I didn't try with absolute paths.) I also 
created subdirs under "A B" with a file in one of them and that was okay 
also. Have you experimented with some different scenarios on a smaller 
scale to see if you can reproduce it in different ways?

Scott