diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/HBaseInterClusterReplicationEndpoint.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/HBaseInterClusterReplicationEndpoint.java
index a899d37c5943..9cd5392cbfc6 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/HBaseInterClusterReplicationEndpoint.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/HBaseInterClusterReplicationEndpoint.java
@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClusterConnection;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Connection;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.CallTimeoutException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.ReplicationProtbufUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.NoSuchColumnFamilyException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.WALUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.replication.HBaseReplicationEndpoint;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.replication.ReplicationUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.replication.regionserver.ReplicationSinkManager.SinkPeer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.CommonFSUtils;
@@ -504,6 +506,7 @@ private long parallelReplicate(CompletionService<Integer> pool, ReplicateContext
   public boolean replicate(ReplicateContext replicateContext) {
     CompletionService<Integer> pool = new ExecutorCompletionService<>(this.exec);
     int sleepMultiplier = 1;
+    int initialTimeout = replicateContext.getTimeout();
 
     if (!peersSelected && this.isRunning()) {
       connectToPeers();
@@ -574,6 +577,9 @@ public boolean replicate(ReplicateContext replicateContext) {
           } else if (ioe instanceof ConnectException || ioe instanceof UnknownHostException) {
             LOG.warn("{} Peer is unavailable, rechecking all sinks: ", logPeerId(), ioe);
             replicationSinkMgr.chooseSinks();
+          } else if (ioe instanceof CallTimeoutException) {
+            replicateContext
+              .setTimeout(ReplicationUtils.getAdaptiveTimeout(initialTimeout, sleepMultiplier));
           } else {
             LOG.warn("{} Can't replicate because of a local or network error: ", logPeerId(), ioe);
           }