Filenames with spaces cause problems; can't be escaped

Trying to use rsync as follows:

rsync -v --delete -e ssh -avz tiger:/home/smith smithcopy

But as the directory tree is traversed, as soon as it hits a file or
directory which has a space in the filename, things go bad... as in:

rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/home/smith/Fun Stuff/myfile.txt": No such
file or directory (2)
stat /home/smith/Fun Stuff/myfile.txt : No such file or directory

I can't find any way to escape the filenames when they are included
implicitly.

(This happens whether or not I'm using ssh)

Fred Henkstrom wrote:
> Trying to use rsync as follows:
>
> rsync -v --delete -e ssh -avz tiger:/home/smith smithcopy
>
> But as the directory tree is traversed, as soon as it hits a file or
> directory which has a space in the filename, things go bad... as in:
>
> rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/home/smith/Fun Stuff/myfile.txt": No such
> file or directory (2)
> stat /home/smith/Fun Stuff/myfile.txt : No such file or directory
>
> I can't find any way to escape the filenames when they are included
> implicitly.
>
> (This happens whether or not I'm using ssh)

Solved.

It was coincidence that this happened when there was whitespace. The
real problem was that the user on the target machine didn't have write
priveledges for the directory.