Remove backslash found in destpath in config file

--- a/rsnapshot-program.pl
+++ b/rsnapshot-program.pl
@@ -4116,7 +4116,10 @@
 	if ($destpath =~ m/\/$/) {
 		$destpath = remove_trailing_slash($destpath);
 	}
-	
+
+        # remove any backslash escaping spaces, leave mkpath do the job
+        $destpath =~ s/\\ +//;
+
 	# create the directory if it doesn't exist
 	if ( ! -e "$destpath" ) {
 		print_cmd("mkdir -m 0755 -p $destpath/");
