I've just checked my configuration and seen that my Cygwin backups are also 
configured as server-side compression...


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 00:12:29 -0400
Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:

> 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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