You are running into a limit of the TFTP server.  

You can/should run ssh on the windows box and scp the backup.  I suggest the
reasonably priced WINSSHD or the even more reasonably prices OpenSSH.

-Steve S.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaun Shaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:29 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FW-1] SecurePlatform, TFTP and backups
> 
> Make sure to transfer in binary mode.
> 
> Shaun
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Brian Hope Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FW-1] SecurePlatform, TFTP and backups
> 
> I'm having a problem with backups on our splat box.  The backup log on
> splat says "Failed to transfer the package to the remote
> server.", but I
> do see a file on my tftp server.  Everytime I do a backup, it
> transfers a .tgz file that's exactly 32,768 kb.  When I try to
> decompress it, winzip spits out the error message: "invalid
> compressed data - unable to inflate".  Gzip gives a similar error. 
> I've used both solar 
> wind's tftp
> server, and 3com's tftp server.  Any ideas?
> 

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