> #!/bin/bash 
>  
> newloc="'Some New Location'" 

Those single quotes are not special.

loc="'Some New Location'"
perl -le 'foreach (@ARGV) {print "->$_<-"}' $loc
->'Some<-
->New<-
->Location'<-

> sudo /usr/sbin/nsr/mmlocate -u -n ourbackup1.001 $newloc 

So the complaint is that you're feeding it 3 locations instead of one.

Try instead:

newloc='Some New Location'
mmlocate <blah .. blahs...> "$newloc"

perl -le 'foreach (@ARGV) {print "->$_<-"}' "$loc"
->Some New Location<-

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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