diff --git a/Cluster.md b/Cluster.md
index 0c34a33..a9f7771 100644
--- a/Cluster.md
+++ b/Cluster.md
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ config:
         user:   matt              # ssh login user
         working_dir: 'c:\temp'  # working folder on remote host, required for streaming type
         ffmpeg:      'c:/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg'
+        remote_copy_cmd: 'scp -T'  # command used to copy to and from remote machine
         profiles:               # profiles allowed on this host
           - hevc_cuda
           - hevc_qsv
@@ -175,6 +176,7 @@ config:
 | user          | User to log into this host as via ssh. The user must be pre-authenticated to the host so that a password is not required. See https://www.ssh.com/ssh/copy-id.  **[1]** |
 | ffmpeg        | Path on the host to ffmpeg. |
 | working_dir   | Indicates the temporary directory to use for encoding.  **[2]** |
+| remote_copy_cmd | Optional. Program used to copy files to and from the remote machine. Defaults to 'scp -T'. Values starting with '[' are interpreted as a python list of arguments (e.g. '["scp", "-T"]'), to allow for program path with spaces. Program must support the scp syntax (user@remote:/path/file) in both directions. Default value probably does not work with openssh versions older than January 2019. One alternative is 'rsync -e ssh'. |
 | profiles       | The allowed profiles to use for all encodes on this host. If not provided, assumes all. A video input matching a profile that is not assigned to a particular host will be run on a host that will, if any. This is how, for example, you restrict CPU-based encodings to hosts with no hardware acceleration - or vice versa. In other words, you control how each host is used by which profiles it supports. |
 | path-substitutions | Optional. Applicable only to *mounted* type hosts. Use when the server media files and host mount paths are different. |
 | queues   | Optional. You can define per-host queues to enable concurrent jobs on each host.  If not given, encoding jobs will run 1 at a time.  See README.md for further discussion of queues. |
diff --git a/pytranscoder/cluster.py b/pytranscoder/cluster.py
index 2beec84..bd6f84e 100644
--- a/pytranscoder/cluster.py
+++ b/pytranscoder/cluster.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """
     Cluster support
 """
+import ast
 import datetime
 import os
 import shutil
@@ -58,6 +59,22 @@ def working_dir(self):
     def host_type(self):
         return self.props['type']
 
+    @property
+    def remote_copy_cmd(self) -> [str]:
+        if 'remote_copy_cmd' not in self.props:
+            return ['scp', '-T']
+
+        if self.props['remote_copy_cmd'][0] == '[':
+            try:
+                cmd = ast.literal_eval(self.props['remote_copy_cmd'])
+            except SyntaxError:
+                print(f'failed to parse {self.props["remote_copy_cmd"]} as python list')
+                sys.exit(1)
+        else:
+            cmd = self.props['remote_copy_cmd'].split()
+
+        return cmd
+
     def get_processor(self) -> Processor:
         # match first available processor (for info parsing use only)
         if self.ffmpeg_path:
@@ -333,13 +350,15 @@ def go(self):
                 if _profile.is_ffmpeg:
                     if job.media_info.is_multistream() and self.configfile.automap and _profile.automap:
                         ooutput = ooutput + job.media_info.ffmpeg_streams(_profile)
-                    cmd = ['-y', *oinput, '-i', self.converted_path(remote_inpath),
-                           *ooutput, self.converted_path(remote_outpath)]
+                    cmd = ['-y', *oinput, '-i', f'"{self.converted_path(remote_inpath)}"',
+                           *ooutput, f'"{self.converted_path(remote_outpath)}"']
+                    processor_cmd = self.props.ffmpeg_path
                 else:
-                    cmd = ['-i', self.converted_path(remote_inpath), *oinput,
-                           *ooutput, '-o', self.converted_path(remote_outpath)]
+                    cmd = ['-i', f'"{self.converted_path(remote_inpath)}"', *oinput,
+                           *ooutput, '-o', f'"{self.converted_path(remote_outpath)}']
+                    processor_cmd = self.props.hbcli_path
 
-                cli = [*ssh_cmd, *cmd]
+                cli = [*ssh_cmd, processor_cmd, *cmd]
 
                 #
                 # display useful information
@@ -365,7 +384,9 @@ def go(self):
                     # trick to make scp work on the Windows side
                     target_dir = '/' + remote_working_dir
 
-                scp = ['scp', inpath, self.props.user + '@' + self.props.ip + ':' + target_dir]
+                cp_cmd = self.props.remote_copy_cmd
+
+                scp = [*cp_cmd, inpath, self.props.user + '@' + self.props.ip + ':"' + target_dir + '"']
                 self.log(' '.join(scp))
 
                 code, output = run(scp)
@@ -410,7 +431,8 @@ def hb_log_callback(stats):
                 # copy results back to local
                 #
                 retrieved_copy_name = os.path.join(gettempdir(), os.path.basename(remote_outpath))
-                cmd = ['scp', self.props.user + '@' + self.props.ip + ':' + remote_outpath, retrieved_copy_name]
+                cmd = [*cp_cmd, self.props.user + '@' + self.props.ip + ':"' + remote_outpath + '"',
+                       retrieved_copy_name]
                 self.log(' '.join(cmd))
 
                 code, output = run(cmd)
@@ -443,11 +465,11 @@ def hb_log_callback(stats):
                 if self.props.is_windows():
                     remote_outpath = self.converted_path(remote_outpath)
                     remote_inpath = self.converted_path(remote_inpath)
-                    self.run_process([*ssh_cmd, f'"del {remote_outpath}"'])
-                    self.run_process([*ssh_cmd, f'"del {remote_inpath}"'])
+                    self.run_process([*ssh_cmd, 'del', f'"{remote_outpath}"'])
+                    self.run_process([*ssh_cmd, 'del', f'"{remote_inpath}"'])
                 else:
-                    self.run_process([*ssh_cmd, f'"rm {remote_outpath}"'])
-                    self.run_process([*ssh_cmd, f'"rm {remote_inpath}"'])
+                    self.run_process([*ssh_cmd, 'rm', f'"{remote_outpath}"'])
+                    self.run_process([*ssh_cmd, 'rm', f'"{remote_inpath}"'])
 
             finally:
                 self.queue.task_done()