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how to know total upload and download stats till date

I am thinking that Am I able to know how much data I received and sent till date since my MINT 9 ????
I wanted to know is there method that counts total stats of upload and download since I installed My linux...
System monitor is good for only one session..Once you restart the PC all gone.....

Thanks in Advance..

From this date forward you can use iptables to keep track of your bandwidth totals.

The thing is, I believe that Mint uses ufw as a front-end to iptables, and I don't know how to save the counters using ufw.

First you need to configure iptables how you want it then save the rules to a file, for example /etc/iptables.rules

Then you need to set it up so they load at boot and save at shutdown.

One way you could restore your rules and counters is with a script in rc.local

Code:

#!/bin/bash

/sbin/iptables-restore -c < /etc/iptables.rules

or where you want to save your rules and you could put this file in /etc/init.d/rc.local making sure it is executable

and you could put another script in /etc/rcS.d/S50iptables with

Code:

#!/bin/bash

/sbin/iptables-save -c > /etc/iptables.rules

To save your counters and rules at shutdown.

You could check this out too
http://wiki.debian.org/iptables