I would try a couple of other things.

* Replace " " with "%20" so you have "/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie%20SYNLOG"

* Double quote the name
* Single quote the name (some shells treat the different quotes differently)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Gilles Bourcy
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 05:17 AM
> To: amanda-users
> Subject: whitespaces in disk names
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My problem is the following :
> I wish to save a directory in which there is a whitespace :
> /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG
> 
> So in the disklist file I tried different possibilities, 
> first by using 
> Linux usual means to deal with whitespaces
> in directory names :
> /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie\ SYNLOG
> "/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG"
> But when doing an amcheck, it rejects with an error saying 
> that SYNLOG 
> is a non defined dump-type
> (which is normal : it's part of the name of a directory, not 
> a dumptype).
> 
> So I tried using the different means offered by Amanda. :
> /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie?SYNLOG
> ^/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie?SYNLOG$
> /usr1/home/document/Ing*SYNLOG
> and so on...
> But when doing an amcheck, I've got an error saying the directories
> or files don't exist.
> 
> Has someone any idea ?
> 
>