I totally forgot about the \ trick.
But please do reconsider reopening this bug. the fact remains that tar
and rsync (two basic archiving utilities) failed to backup those files.
hmm, maybe I should have opened the bug for rsync and tar (cause they
don't know how to process a name with ":" in it).
** Also affects: tar (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
** Also affects: rsync (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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impossible to backup ~/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:*
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62208
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