Problems with directories containing spaces in name

[Allen Supynuk]

This looks like a shell issue to me. 

Try 

> rsync "root at 192.168.101.53:/Volumes/WD-Daten/XserveMirror/Satz/Akzidenzen\ 2012/" "/Volumes/PromiseRAID/Satz/Akzidenzen 2012" 2>&1

And 

> rsync "root at 192.168.101.53:'/Volumes/WD-Daten/XserveMirror/Satz/Akzidenzen 2012/'" "/Volumes/PromiseRAID/Satz/Akzidenzen 2012" 2>&1

When the path is being sent to the remote system there needs to be something telling the remote system that the blank is part of the file name.

-Allen


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On Mar 1, 2013, at 18:57, Achim Denzl <denzl at dtpd.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi anybody!
> 
> I'm not shure if this really is a rsync problem, it might also be a shell issue. But hopefully, someone has a hint for me ;-)
> 
> I'm using rsync 3.0.9 on two OS X Servers (FreeBSD) to synchronize several folders between both servers (2-way-sync). Works fine, with one exception: One of the directories to be sync'd contains a whitespace in its pathname, and this one only works in one direction and fails in the other.
> 
> 
> Here's the first one (it's all on one line):
> 
> rsync "/Volumes/PromiseRAID/Satz/Akzidenzen 2012/" "root at 192.168.101.53:/Volumes/WD-Daten/XserveMirror/Satz/Akzidenzen 2012" 2>&1
> 
> This one works fine, no problems so far.
> 
> 
> And now, the other way round:
> 
> rsync "root at 192.168.101.53:/Volumes/WD-Daten/XserveMirror/Satz/Akzidenzen 2012/" "/Volumes/PromiseRAID/Satz/Akzidenzen 2012" 2>&1
> 
> This one throws the following errors:
> 
> rsync: link_stat "/Volumes/WD-Daten/XserveMirror/Satz/Akzidenzen" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync: change_dir "/private/var/root//2012" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1588) [Receiver=3.0.9]
> 
> 
> Both pathes are correct and I could hunt the problem down to the space character between "Akzidenzen" and "2012". I tried to escape it with
> "\ " and also tried omitting the quotes around the path, but the only thing that happened was, that the formerly working command failed and the broken one suddenly worked ok. Strange :-/
> 
> But somehow, both directions ought to work, and I'm stuck here...
> 
> BTW: For better readability, I removed the rsync-options in the lines above. They are: -naxuNXzh --timeout=1800 --fileflags --partial-dir=.rsync-partial --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync --stats.
> 
> Maybe someone can help...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Achim
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