Decided that we don't really want the rule that preserves the

backup-suffix files to be perishable.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/options.c b/options.c
index 4017f813..97e50b86 100644
--- a/options.c
+++ b/options.c
@@ -1287,6 +1287,10 @@ int parse_arguments(int *argc, const char ***argv, int frommain)
 		snprintf(err_buf, sizeof err_buf,
 			"--suffix cannot be a null string without --backup-dir\n");
 		return 0;
+ 	} else if (make_backups && delete_mode && !delete_excluded && !am_server) {
+ 		snprintf(backup_dir_buf, sizeof backup_dir_buf,
+			"P *%s", backup_suffix);
+ 		parse_rule(&filter_list, backup_dir_buf, 0, 0);
 	}
 	if (make_backups && !backup_dir)
 		omit_dir_times = 1;