On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:53:53AM +0100, Andreas Kahari wrote:
| >How about tar czpf / | dd obs=$BIGNUM > /dev/nrst0? More sophisticated
| >methods are always possible, of course...
|
| I was thinking about something similar but using buffer from the
| misc/buffer port somehow instead of dd. I believe that that program
| will give you both the total size (in bytes transferred, I'm not
| certain this is the same as the size of the achive on the tape as I
| don't know anything about tape drives) and the rate of the transfer.
dd(1) does that too, you can send SIGINFO to dd and it'll tell you the
rate at which it has been transferring data and the amount transferred
up till then. Once it's done you get the same information without
sending SIGINFO.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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