Just tried double quotes: tree: /home/household/"VirtualBox VMs"/ Same error as with no backslashes.
-Denis On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Paul Slootman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun 06 Sep 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> > >> > rsync: change_dir "/home/household/VirtualBox\ VMs" failed: No such >> file or >> > directory (2) >> >> The error message explicitly shows a backslash in the name, so the >> problem is there. >> >> > When implementing this vault I found that I needed to double escape the >> > space in the folder name in the .conf: >> >> > tree: /home/household/VirtualBox\\ VMs/ >> >> Have you tried it without *any* backslashes? >> > > I thought that was the first thing I tried, but I made so many stupid typo > errors getting to this point that I am unsure. So I tried > /home/household/VirtualBox VMs/ This is the result: > *** Execution cycle 0 *** > > rsync: change_dir "/home/household/VirtualBo" failed: No such file or > directory (2) > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) > (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0] > > So what to try next? > >> >> > I have tried leaving off the final backslash to no effect. >> >> The final slash is *not* a backslash :-P >> > > So true. > >> >> >> Paul >> > > Thanks for your help. You have reinforced my suspicion that dealing with > the space in the folder name is the issue. > > -Denis > >
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