Stephan Dühr <[email protected]> writes:

> You could measure indepentently from Bareos how much time it takes on
> your system to read all the files by using tar like this
>
> time tar --totals -cf /dev/null /path/to/your/data
>
> and observe iostat as you did before.

sorry about the late response, but I want to point out that GNU tar
detects when the output file is /dev/null and does *not* read data in
this case.  I believe this was an optimisation requested from the AMANDA
people :-)

the workaround is to specify /dev/zero as the output device.

-- 
Kjetil T. Homme
Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game

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