Forum Post: RE: Possible to see progress of a backup?

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1) Experience is a really good estimator -- just one of the many reasons that you should periodically restore backups. 2) You could look at the IO rate on the target device and then do some math -- a minimum of approximately 48M blocks 8k need to be restored -- if your disk subsystem is currently doing about 1,000 per second that would mean roughly 48,000 seconds in total... 3) Just guessing but this situation sounds like a demonstration of how easy it is to saturate the RAM cache on a SAN and the joyous results of doing so.

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