[PLUG] dirvish/rsync problem

[Denis Heidtmann]

I posted something about this a while ago.  Since then, I have been having
exchanges with folks on dirvish.org.  The issue seems to boil down to how
to enter a directory name containing a space in the tree: directive.  The
latest version is tree: '/home/household/VirtualBox\ VMs/'

This produces an error:
rsync: change_dir "/home/household//'/home/household/VirtualBox VMs/'"
failed: No such file or directory (2)

The summary ACTION statement may have clues to what is happening:
ACTION: rsync -vrltH --delete --stats -D --numeric-ids -pgo
'/home/household/VirtualBox VMs/'/
/mnt/backup/dirvish-bank/R2D5-VboxVMs/2015-09-08-Tue-08:13:57/tree

Anybody here have ideas of what caused the strange interpretation of the
tree: entry?  Since dirvish is a pearl program, maybe some pearl experts
here can offer some ideas.

Thanks,
-Denis