[Dirvish] documentation for 'exclude:' -or- *SUCCESS the hard way*

Richard Geoffrion dirvish at rain4us.net
Fri Nov 7 20:22:47 UTC 2008


Roberto Mello wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Richard Geoffrion <dirvish at rain4us.net> wrote:
>   
>> OK... well I have a situation now where the source path (tree: )
>> contains a space.  I can't get the quotes passed to the rsync command
>> line.  So far, the following attempts to specify the path have not worked.
>> tree: "/home/database backups"
>>     
>
> Can you put in a symlink (with no spaces) pointing to the real tree
> and use the symlink as the tree?
>   
Well yes, but I was hoping to figure out how to get dirvish to backup a 
spaced-path without the added layers of complexity.  For this one path a 
symlink is...tolerable.

-- 
Richard


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