On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:03:43PM -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:38:34AM -0800, Paul Yeatman enlightened us:
> > ->>In response to your message<<-
> >   --received from Paul Bijnens--
> > >
> > > Paul Yeatman wrote:
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I think the firewall is the cullprit.
> > > The server sends a UDP packet with the request for the estimate.
> > > When finished the client sends a reply UDP back.
> > > But by that time the firewall does not relate the reply to the request
> > > and drops or denies the packet.  And hence the client does not receive
> > > an ACK and retries 3 times to send the reply and gives up.
> > 
> > Hmmmm.  Well, that would be easy enough to test but would this explain
> > how the smaller backup of the same client/config succeeded?
> > 
> 
> Yes, because it doesn't take as long to generate a backup of 3GB than it
> does to backup 17.
> 
> See http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2555136 and try the udp settings
> there.

Nor does it take as long to estimate.

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