On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:07:09AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:17:11PM -0700, Mike Delaney wrote:
> > 
> > With the gzip wrapper installed on a client, but not the server, backups 
> > work
> > fine (once you fix the obvious redirection bug in the script), but restores
> > don't: 
> >     With amrecover, gzip gets run on the server, not the client, so
> >     you never get the opportunity to decrypt the backup.
> 
> Does this mean that amrecover does not recognize/honor the
> "compress client ..." directive of a dumptype?
> 

Effectively, yes.  What appears to be happening behind the scenes is that
amrecover causes amrestore -h to be run on the server, which decompresses
the image there before transmitting it back to the client.