Don't complain about a null --suffix if we're the server/sender (since

we might not have received the --backup-dir path from the client).

diff --git a/options.c b/options.c
index 1ee4ee7..67349ac 100644 (file)
--- a/options.c
+++ b/options.c
@@ -707,9 +707,9 @@ int parse_arguments(int *argc, const char ***argv, int frommain)
                        backup_dir_buf[backup_dir_len++] = '/';
                        backup_dir_buf[backup_dir_len] = '\0';
                }
-               if (verbose > 1)
+               if (verbose > 1 && !am_sender)
                        rprintf(FINFO, "backup_dir is %s\n", backup_dir_buf);
-       } else if (!backup_suffix_len) {
+       } else if (!backup_suffix_len && (!am_server || !am_sender)) {
                rprintf(FERROR,
                        "--suffix cannot be a null string without --backup-dir\n");
                exit_cleanup(RERR_SYNTAX);