On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:32:04PM +0200, Franz Skale wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> But if i use client compression, it should happen on the client, and
> then the zipped image should be sent to the amanda server, or am i wrong
> ? The tar command is piped to gzip on the client. What's the server
> waiting for ? The sendsize works well, the runtar works well, but the
> sendbackup fails if the client compr. is enabled. That's not clear to me
> at all. What happens on the sendback command ?
> Perhaps you or anyone else has a solution. My network is not the cause
> of the problem. I have a switched environment and can use the whole
> bandwith on it. 

This is not going to help, just a data point.  I had about a year of using
the cygwin client but stopped about a year ago.  I never got client side
compression working.  Don't recall the problem(s), but I had to do compression
on the server.

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