* Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:01:13:12:30:56-0500] scribed: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:17:18AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > At the end of an amanda dump, what is the optimal way to determine the > > location/position on that tape where the dump completed? > > Not certain what your objective is, > so I'm not certain in what "units" > you might need the information.
I am trying to track tape usage statistics over time. > Do these do anything for you: > > my "mt status" command reports where the tape is positioned > by tape file number and block number > > $ mt status > HP DDS-3 4mm DAT loader tape drive: > sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0 > file no= 13 block no= 0 > > your amanda report shows the percent of the tape used and the number of > bytes and files "successfully" written under the "tape usage" section > > USAGE BY TAPE: > Label Time Size % Nb > DS1-01 0:43 2536.3 21.7 25 What does `Nb' mean? Is that the number of DLE's on tape? > also in the amanda report is "taper's" report (under Notes:) > of the ACTUAL number of bytes and files written > (some may have failed due to an error at the end) > > NOTES: > ... > taper: tape DS1-01 kb 2598496 fm 25 [OK] In your example, what does `fm 25' mean? Perhaps, I can use numbers already calculated by amanda, rather than calculating what I want from mt. Thank you. -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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