Brian White wrote:
> 
> > I think you are falling in two problems:
> > 1) [data timeout]: the server does not receive data or EOF for long time
> 
> This doesn't seem to be the case since I see constant TCP traffic on
> all sockets.  What seems to be missing is a "size ?????" line at the
> end but it's the server that is closing the connections.

Ok, this is true ( I not noticed it). What about runtar-debug log?
Try to execute manually the tar command you can see and look at the
Total line.

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Dr. Enrico Bernardini
System Administrator

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