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Re: Measure and Graph Tape Usage

2002-09-13 14:00:09
Subject: Re: Measure and Graph Tape Usage
From: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
To: Galen Johnson <gjohnson AT trantor DOT org>, Jason Greenberg <jg AT execulink DOT com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:49:58 -0400
On Friday 13 September 2002 13:17, Galen Johnson wrote:
>Jason Greenberg wrote:
>>Is there any way to measure how many bytes where written to the
>> tape every night?  I would like to feed the values to MRTG or
>> something, so I can see when I am close to using two tapes per
>> dump.
>>
>>Also, if the data is available, is it the raw uncompressed bytes,
>> or the post-gzipped bytes that are recorded?  I would like to
>> see the both, to measure my compression ratios.
>>
>>Thanks group,
>>
>>Jay
>
>Yes, that information is available but you will need to be able to
> parse the email amanda sends you after she completes a run.
>
>=G=

One could also take a look with amplot, but I find its a bit hard to 
interpret.  Probably me, but...

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
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