Kyle, Thank you for taking an interest in my problem of escaping spaces. Here is the entire script and the entire output. I am at my wits end as I have tried every every trick I know or have heard of, including \\\ and adding single quotes. I added protect-args at your suggestion, but it doesn¹t seem to change anything. I am running the script as root for now to take sudo out of the picture. I have also tried putting the paths directly in the command as arguments, rather than as script variables.
Many thanks, --Carney --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # Space-separated list of directories to back up; edit as needed; SOURCE #DIRS="/Volumes/Christine/Complete\ Rug\ Image\ Archive/Misc" DIRS="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Volumes/Christine/Complete\ Rug\ Image\ Archive/Layered\ Rooms/" # Options to pass to rsync; edit as needed # "--update" = update only (don't overwrite newer versions of files) # "--delete"= delete files that exist on DESTINATION BUT NOT SOURCE" OPTS="-avAX --progress --delete --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync --protect-args --dry-run" # If you wish to back up to a server via ssh, change the line to something like # BACKUPDIR="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/backup/destination" #BACKUPDIR="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Volumes/Paris/Complete Rug Image Archive/Misc/" BACKUPDIR="/Volumes/Paris/Complete\ Rug\ Image\ Archive/Layered\ Rooms/" # ignore Mac droppings EXCLUDES="--exclude .DS_Store --exclude .Trash --exclude Cache --exclude Caches" # Build the actual command # NOTE the specific path to the "special" version of rsync COMMAND="/usr/local/bin/rsync $OPTS $EXCLUDES $DIRS $BACKUPDIR" # Informative output echo About to run: echo $COMMAND echo Please do not close this window until it is finished. # DO IT! $COMMAND echo Done. # the end. --------------------------------------------- xserve03:/Users/admin/Documents/Rsync 3.0.3/rsync_scripts root# ./rsync_script_1.4.sh About to run: sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -avAX --progress --delete --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync --protect-args --dry-run --exclude .DS_Store --exclude .Trash --exclude Cache --exclude Caches [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Volumes/Christine/Complete\ Rug\ Image\ Archive/Layered\ Rooms/ /Volumes/Paris/Complete\ Rug\ Image\ Archive/Layered\ Rooms/ Please do not close this window until it is finished. Unexpected local arg: Rug\ If arg is a remote file/dir, prefix it with a colon (:). rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1216) [receiver=3.0.3] Done. _____________________________________________ On 8/20/08 11:23 AM, "Kyle Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 20, 2008, at 10:32 AM, "Carney Mimms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> This may not be an rsync-specific question, but it is certainly stopping me >> from moving forward with rsync and I am sure it has a simple solution. I >> have written a simple shell script to rsync disks attached to a Mac OS X >> Server 10.4.11 Xserve box at our offices to a similar Mac OS X Server >> 10.4.11 setup at our colocation facility. The script runs rsync 3.0.3 on the >> machine at the colocation facility but syncs the disks at our office back to >> its own disks, so DIRS is the path to the directory being backed up, which >> is remote, and BACKUP DIR is the path to the backup destination, which is on >> the machine running the script. >> >> The script works fine, except when I try to specify paths containing spaces. >> As you can see from the script excerpts below and the result, the backslash >> escape character isn't getting the job done and I can't figure out why. I've >> never had any trouble using the backslash escape in this way before. >> >> Can anyone suggest a different approach, other than renaming all my paths to >> eliminate spaces, which is the direction I seem to be heading :-) >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> >> DIRS="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Volumes/Christine/Complete_Rug_Image_Archive/Lay >> ered\ Rooms/" >> >> BACKUPDIR="/Volumes/Paris/Complete_Rug_Image_Archive/Layered\ Rooms/" >> >> COMMAND="sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync $OPTS $EXCLUDES $DIRS $BACKUPDIR" >> >> result: >> >> Unexpected local arg: Rooms/ >> If arg is a remote file/dir, prefix it with a colon (:). >> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1216) [receiver=3.0.3] >> ---------------------------------------------------------- > > You haven't shown us the Rsync portion of your script. > > Are you using the protect args flag? > > Kyle >
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