* Andrea Borgia <borgia AT cs.unibo DOT it> [2004:07:15:18:48:50+0200] scribed:
> Hello.
> 
> On one host I would like to backup the Windows "Documents and Settings" 
> directory from Linux, but it appears Amanda is bitching about those 
> embedded whitespaces.
> 
> I've tried both escaping them and quoting the whole path (as above), but 
> still no luck.
> 
> Has anyone dealt with a similar problem before? Apart from simply 
> ignoring such paths, how should I add them to the disklist?

Assuming that you are backing up over Samba, what I do is share
"Documents and Settings" as something else (e.g., docs), which
alleviates this problem.

hth

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