On Friday 09 June 2006 16:35, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:15:38PM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > 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. > > There is no such thing. You "raw bps" will vary greatly depending on > your blocksize and other factors. I know this won't help you much but just assume that tapes are very slow ...