rsync failure quoting incorrect directory

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Readers,

Command terminal output:

$ rsync -rv * -e ssh user at pathtoremotemachine
sending incremental file list
rsync: mkdir "/localmachine/path/to/home/user at pathtoremotemachine"
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(576) [receiver=3.0.4]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(632) [sender=3.0.4]

Any help?

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mandriva 2009