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. -- Bowie