You can use iostat which is part of the sysstat package. <br>
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yum install sysstat<br><br>
You can set up an interval and a count and have it redirected to a file for later reference<br>
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iostat 10 20 &gt;&gt; filename<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bowie Bailey</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:Bowie_Bailey@buc.com">Bowie_Bailey@buc.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bowie Bailey wrote:<br>&gt; I have a backup spooling onto a DLT drive.&nbsp;&nbsp;Is there any tool that<br>&gt; will let me monitor the data throughput on the device?<br><br>Based on all of the conversation this question generated, it sounds
<br>like the answer is &quot;no&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Interesting discussion, tho.&nbsp;&nbsp;:)<br><br>Thanks for all the suggestions.<br><br>--<br>Bowie<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">
CentOS@centos.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thx<br>Joshua Gimer