[CentOS] Tape drive throughput
Bowie Bailey
Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Fri Jun 9 20:15:38 UTC 2006
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
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