Bash -- Rsync variable in filename has spaces - bash

Question

Been searching for hours and still cant figure this out :(
Anyway, im creating a script that will automatically rsync about 40 different directories to 40 other directories on another server. if you want to see the entire script you can view it here: http://pastebin.com/Nt3KKvx9
But the important bit is the for loop where i run rsync
for ((i=0; i<${#websys[#]}; i++))
do
localpath="/nusdata/staff/NUS/NUS/Systems/${kiskasys[$i]}"
remotepath="/home/www/html/nusalaska.com/html/systems/${websys[$i]}"
rsync -rlptnvz -s "$localpath" -e "ssh -p 50014" "nusak#webserver:$remotepath/"
done
The problem is that the array "kiskasys" has many directory names that have spaces in them (Example: '101 greenbrook').
I have tried making the array variables have single quotes around them, double quotes around them, escaped spaces like '\ ', and combinations of all three. I have also tried putting the $localpath in quotes, not in quotes, etc. etc.
I guess im just confused on how the -s (--protect-args) deals with the spaces and how I can get it to work in my situation.
The error output always looks something like the following:
rsync: change_dir "/nusdata/staff/NUS/NUS/101" failed: No such file or directory (2)
or
rsync: change_dir "/nusdata/staff/NUS/NUS/'101 greenbrook'" failed: No such file or directory (2)
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks
Found My Problem
In copying my code from my script to this page I accidently copied it wrong... however in copying it wrong, what i posted above was perfectly good code that works fine haha.
so what i posted above was the solution to my own problem.
The original had single quotes in the localpath variable like so:
localpath="'/nusdata/staff/NUS/NUS/Systems/${kiskasys[$i]}'"
and the single quotes was the problem. And for everyone's benefit here is an example output
echo ${kiskasys[1]}
#output would look like this:
101 greenbrook
Basically there are no special escape characters etc.

Answer 1

For what it's worth, I'm not able to replicate your problem. If I set localpath and remotepath to a directory with spaces:
localpath="/home/lars/tmp/so/dir1/a directory"
remotepath="/home/lars/tmp/so/dir2/a directory"
And then run your rsync command (modified slightly for my environment):
rsync -rlptvz -s "$localpath/" -e "ssh" "localhost:$remotepath/"
It Just Works. Here's the content of dir1:
dir1/a directory/file1
dir1/a directory/file3
dir1/a directory/file2
And after running rsync, dir2 looks like this:
dir2/a directory/file1
dir2/a directory/file3
dir2/a directory/file2
Can you show a specific command line that results in the errors you're seeing above? Maybe run the script with the -x flag and show exactly how localpath and remotepath are set.