Amanda-Users

Re: Detecting shoe shining with modern libraries?

2007-03-11 16:12:51
Subject: Re: Detecting shoe shining with modern libraries?
From: Skylar Thompson <skylar AT cs.earlham DOT edu>
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis AT wgops DOT com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:01:51 -0700
Michael Loftis wrote:
>
>
> iostat doesn't work for tape devices under Linux.  And the T50 doesn't
> have anything in the UI so I have to rely on after-the-fact reports
> form AMANDA. Ohh well.  You'd think there'd be a SCSI INQUIRY command
> that could be sent or something.
>

If you've got your disk spool on a separate device, you can get iostat
to report transfer rates just for that device, and kind of estimate how
much is going out to tape.


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-- Skylar Thompson (skylar AT cs.earlham DOT edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/


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