On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 08:15 +0200, Eric L. Zolf wrote: > Hi, ... > More details: if you backup to/from a remote site, the description is > of > the form `host::path` (e.g. `rdiff-backup /home > myuser@myhost::/srv/backup/homebak`), and the current quoting allows > to > have the double colons (::) somewhere in the `host` or `path` part of > the remote description. And the question is if anybody knows of a > concrete use case for this possibility?
One case that may be used is if you create a file or directory based on an IPv6 address, similar to what is sometime done in syslog or other network logging programs that log to a file/directory based on the hostname, but if it doesn't have a reverse entry. Regards Frank
