Wayne, I guess if you apply standard shell escaping logic you end up with a string which isn't processed correctly, yes, ssh complains, but only because Rsync passed the backslashes through without dealing with them. My opinion is that if Rsync is splitting a string based on whitespace it also needs to take into account backslashes.
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