Hi, the forwarded email below was meant to go to the list, but I noticed later it was only to 1 recepient. Hence the forward.
Regards, Charles Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:08:48 +0100 From: Charles Stroom <[email protected]> To: Jens Berg <[email protected]> Subject: Re: failure "estimate of level x timed out" So far, so good. Since I have increased etimeout to 14400 AND set "estimate calcsize" I have had 2 backups without failures. The only thing I don't know yet which parameter did the trick. I keep my fingers crossed. Thanks both of you. Charles On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:49:28 +0100 Jens Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would suggest to increase etimeout to a much bigger value, let's say > 14400 or so and see if the estimates finish at all then. If they still > fail, I would take a closer look on the health of the hard discs... > Another option could be to change the estimate method for the dump > type you are using, e.g. if you are using "dumptype user-tar" for the > DLEs, put an "estimate calcsize" in the definition of "dumptype > user-tar". The results of that estimate method will be less accurate > than the ones from the default method but it executes faster. > > Best > Jens > -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.")
