[Wolves] Estimating Tape Write Speed

[sparkes]

Chris Ball 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?
> 

guess based on previous writes? since you know how much data is going to 
be written and know how long the last write took just guess the time 
remaining every few seconds?

This kind of thing is probably best done none interactively with writes 
to /proc to update the status?  or am I over engineering it?

sparkes
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