> Why does BackupPC run the parity command if I've told it not to by 
passing
 > it a 0?  And how do I return to the 3.1 behavior?  According to the
 > documentation, setting it to 0 should disable it, not cause it to run 
with
 > a parameter of 0...  And if for some reason we would *want* the 
parity to
 > run with a parity of 0, could we have a parameter that disables it?  
Maybe
 > -1?  How do you calculate *negative* parity!  :)

Hi Tim,

Same situation here: I don't want to run par2. Because the archive is 
done on USB drives and it takes too long.

It looks between version 1.16 and 1.17 of BackupPC_archiveHost (see 
http://backuppc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/backuppc/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost?r1=1.16&r2=1.17),
 
the condition to run par2 has changed on line 157
 From
   ...
   if ( $parfile != 0 ) {
   ...

to
   ...
   if ( length($parfile) ) {
   ...

I've modified the condition back to "if ( $parfile != 0 )" and now it 
skips the par2 execution.

HTH
Pascal.


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