On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:02:19PM -0400, Jack Baty wrote:
> I believe I've my firewall issues resolved, so this is something new.
> 
> On one of the clients, I get an estimate timeout when using the dumptype 
> comp-user-tar, but not with comp-user. Could this be simply a problem 
> trying to do too much on the client or might it be something else? At 
> some point I would like to create DLEs of partial file systems on that 
> box, which AFAIK requires the use of tar rather than dump. (I haven't 
> tried user-tar, but will if it might help)
> 
> Was there a question in there? :) I think the question is are there 
> other causes of Estimate Timeout errors that are not network-related?

Simplest is that it is taking longer than the estimate allows for.
Try bumping up the etimeout parameter.


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