[CentOS] Tape drive throughput

[Bowie Bailey]

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:56:36PM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > I have a backup spooling onto a DLT drive.  Is there any tool that
> > will let me monitor the data throughput on the device?
> 
> Throughput on a tape drive is very variable, depending on how you are
> writing/reading the data to it.
> 
> So for some meaningful numbers, you would need your backup solution
> to provide them.

I'm just looking for raw bps flowing to the device.  I don't really
care about compression and such at the moment, I just want a rough
idea of what the drive is doing.

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Bowie