How do you specify a remote path with spaces in it?

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How do you specify a remote path with spaces in it?

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Gary Czychi

Created: 2014-09-04

Updated: 2014-09-19

Gary Czychi - 2014-09-04

Hi,

I have a directory "Manual Backup" on a remote unix machine user@host.ip.

Using scp, I can specify the correct path when using a double backslash in front of the space character:
scp x.txt user@host.ip:"/share/Manual\\ Backup/Images/Clonezilla"

However, this doesn't work in Clonezilla. Using this directory path fails:
"/share/Manual\\ Backup/Images/Clonezilla"

It starts to copy, but apparently it writes everything into the ram disk (without displaying an error). Only after the copy process has begun, Clonezilla hangs at 2%, saying the disk is full.

So, is it possible to specify a remote directory name that has spaces in it?

Thanks a lot!

Gary

Last edit: Gary Czychi 2014-09-04

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Steven Shiau - 2014-09-05

Using this directory path fails:
"/share/Manual\ Backup/Images/Clonezilla" -> What's our full command about this?

Steven.

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Gary Czychi - 2014-09-06

Oh, I'm using the Clonezilla beginners interface. It's the screen, where you need to type the remote directory path (using ssh method).

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Steven Shiau - 2014-09-19

Actually you just type it, for example
My dir on my ssh server is:
/home/steven/tmp/my dir
Then when asked by the prep-ocsroot, I just type:
/home/steven/tmp/my dir
Then it shows me:
======================
Mounting sshfs by:
sshfs "steven"@192.168.120.254:"/home/steven/tmp/my dir/" /home/partimag -p 22 -o nonempty,noatime
steven@192.168.120.254's password:
======================
And after entering my password, it is successfully mounted:
The file system disk space usage
***********.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlayfs 998M 7.3M 991M 1% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
udev 988M 4.0K 988M 1% /dev
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
tmpfs 200M 568K 199M 1% /run
/dev/sr0 167M 167M 0 100% /lib/live/mount/medium
/dev/loop0 126M 126M 0 100% /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
tmpfs 998M 0 998M 0% /lib/live/mount/overlay
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/fuse/connections
none 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/debug
none 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/security
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 998M 0 998M 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
none 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/pstore
rpc_pipefs 0 0 0 - /run/rpc_pipefs
steven@192.168.120.254:/home/steven/tmp/my dir/ 3.7T 1.7T 2.1T 45% /home/partimag

Steven.

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