Backing up with rsync - colons in file names

I'm trying to back up to my Time Capsule from a 10.4.10 system using rsync. However, the TC doesn't seem to like files with ":" in the path name, which many of my files seem to have - if I try to touch a file on the TC, say
touch "a:b"
I get a "file name to long" error.
Does anyone know a workaround for this?
I'm also getting errno 7 on some of the file rsync is trying to copy. Haven't figured out what is triggering this.
Any help would be appreciated.

Idris33,
It really depends on what you are backing up. For almost every file, it won't matter whether the resource fork is being copied. If I use rsync, however, I must use the -E option, because I make heavy use of "text clippings" for some things, and text clippings are useless without the resource fork.
If you are making a backup of a given HOME folder with the intention that it be a completely restorable and portable "environment," as I do, resource forks will be mandatory. If, on the other hand, you simply want to back up the majority of your files (with the exception of those entirely dependent on resource forks, such as the aforementioned text clippings), rsync can be used without the -E option.
One thing that puzzles me, though, is why this is an issue with your configuration. I don't use the Airport Extreme to share a network drive, but it would seem to me that an HFS+ volume, being shared over the network, would accept data without "splitting" the resource fork. Does the AE only share a drive over the network using SMB (which would explain this phenomenon), or is it possible that you are mounting it via SMB by choice? If possible, can you mount the drive via AFP?
Scott
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