Re: Question around of remote description

[Robert Nichols]

On 6/17/20 1:15 AM, Eric L. Zolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the course of the review of PR #404 we came to challenge the quite
> complex quoting rules allowed when you backup to/from a remote location.
>
> Our question is if anybody is relying on those (too) complex quoting
> rules to make their backup work? Else it'll allow us to radically
> simplify the code.
>
> More details: if you backup to/from a remote site, the description is of
> the form `host::path` (e.g. `rdiff-backup /home
> myuser@myhost::/srv/backup/homebak`), and the current quoting allows to
> have the double colons (::) somewhere in the `host` or `path` part of
> the remote description. And the question is if anybody knows of a
> concrete use case for this possibility?

On my CentOS 6 system, "locate :: | wc -l" returns 2544, all of which
are under /usr/share/man. While it is inconceivable that I would ever
have one of those names in a backup source or destination, it is quite
possible that I might want to restore one of those files.

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