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Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Drive Statistics

2009-07-10 12:54:11
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Drive Statistics
From: Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
To: Heathe Kyle Yeakley <hkyeakley AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:51:02 -0500
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Heathe Kyle Yeakley <hkyeakley AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
How do you measure tape drives statistics in Unix/Linux (specifically RHEL).

One of the many ways is to look at the bptm logs - grep for the string 'successfully wrote' and you'll find the stats.

What can get VERY misleading is that your performance will vary based on everything else that's going on as well as writing really small images to tape.  Performance analysis is really hard in NetBackup - many of the tools you would like to have simply aren't there.

Good luck,
    .../Ed

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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