Backup directories with space in directory name

[Jack McGee]

On 12/31/2016 10:22 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 31 December 2016 at 16:14, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
>> On 12/30/2016 11:12 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2016-12-30 at 21:47 -0600, Jack McGee wrote:
>>>> I am trying to use this perl script to backup a directory, but it
>>>> fails with this error:
>>> You need to protect every expansion point with one set of quotes.
>>>
>>>> # What to backup.
>>>> backup_files="/mnt/ntfs-d/My Documents"
>>> That's good. That will keep the path safe *within this script*.
>>> However, the variable name is poor, since the value is not a list of
>>> files, the value is the name of a directory containing files to back
>>> up. Suggest something like "directory_to_back_up".
>>>
>>> BTW, if you ever want to put more than one directory name into that
>>> variable, you will need to do more work than described here.
>>>
>>> Regards, K.
>>>
>> Thanks all.  It succesfully backed up the My Documents folder, but of
>> course, now I want to have it also backup
>>
>> /usr/local, /var /etc /opt /home
>>
>> anything else that I would need to restore if I wiped system? Any of that I
>> don't?
> If you want to backup the whole system you could consider something
> like clonezilla which will make a backup of the whole disc for you.
>
> Colin
>
No, I don't really want to backup the whole disc.  I know there are no 
guarantees unless I do backup whole disc, but this subset will be good 
enough I think.