On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:10 -0600, Joshua Gimer wrote: > 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 But tapes are character devices and iostat only shows block devices. If there isn't much else happening the read values on the source drive might be close enough, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com