[CentOS] Tape drive throughput
Bowie Bailey
Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Wed Jun 14 17:40:53 UTC 2006
Joshua Gimer wrote:
> 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?
>
> You can use iostat which is part of the sysstat package.
>
> yum install sysstat
>
> You can set up an interval and a count and have it redirected to a
> file for later reference
>
> iostat 10 20 >> filename
Now why didn't I think of that? :)
It doesn't appear to be able to show me the tape device directly, but
I can get a pretty good idea from watching the disk reads since this
system isn't doing anything else at the moment.
Thanks.
--
Bowie
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