[Wolves] Estimating Tape Write Speed

Alan Pope alan.pope at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 17:17:52 GMT 2005


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:09:18 +0000, Chris Ball <chris at mnemonik.net> wrote:
> I'm currently re-writing my backup shell script, and I wondered if there
> was a way show either the estimated time the backup will take, or how
> much has been written to the tape?
> 

Keep a log of how long each backup is and how big it is to predict the
speed of the next one?

That would allow you to roughly guess how long the next one takes.



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