On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:00:44AM -0500, Nick Danger enlightened us:
> Is there any way to properly calculate what your timeout estimate value 
> should be other then trial and error? I have a partition on a machine 
> that gives this error. "
> 
> dominion.h /u00 lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from dominion]
> 
> 
> If I remove that partition from disklist, all other partitions on that 
> server backup just fine.
> Its a 45G partiton on a SCSI raid set. Its hardly 1% full, holding maybe 
> 1000 files. I have upped the timeout to 1200, and still it failed.
> 

The sendsize.DATETIME.debug log file on dominion should tell you how long
the estimates are taking. A simple calculation should tell you how big
etimeout should be. 

(NUM_PARTITIONS * ETIMEOUT) = total time amanda waits for estimates.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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