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Two directories were created where one directory will contain a percentage of files written and the other directory will contain a percentage of files restored for the mix-workload testing. The same steps defined above for upload and restore processed the mixed workloads. As mentioned, GeoDrive was paused for the upload part, and files were forcibly stubbed for the restore part, before the tests were initiated. Through the GeoDrive command line interface (CLI) the virtual drive was un-paused and the upload was forced. An example of the command line to initiate the tests:
cloud_cli resume n:;cifs-ecs_cli force n:
Once the transfer status as shown in Figure 9 indicated that the upload has started, a “Bulk File Restore” was initiated on the directory to restore the stubbed files. To calculate the throughput and transaction rates, the logs were again employed to capture the completion times.