calculating/timing dump/restore

[Alexey Karguine]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:52:50 +0200 "Ruben Bloemgarten" <ruben at bloemgarten.demon.nl> wrote:

> Hi all, 

> I would like to time a dump/restore operation without actually 

> sitting next to my box with a stopwatch. Specifically restore as 

> dump already indicates the time it took. Can anybody help me out here?

You may use `time' command:

   # time dump -args /dev/something

--bm