I'm considering getting a tape drive for intermediate backup and long-term archiving (e.g. DLT-IV or LTO). Newer drives require a higher data rate to keep them fed than older drives.
I can measure raw hard drive speed with hdparm -Tt, but how do I measure how fast a backup software could read from the filesystem to know how fast a tape drive my box will support? The box is an Athlon64 3800+ on an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe with 1 GB ram (one stick only), with two Seagate 80 GB SATA-II drives. The system filesystems are on LVM over RAID1 and the data filesystems are on LVM striped volumes (for better speed). Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
