-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEiduDpdyWzQ5b5ckRAgUtAJ46nvrJ/a3L+wTaTSGOsps5OOs3dwCfXyHd xzKejBtqqSlc26xfoOk72pY= =O0Ak -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----