topic Re: How to view the contents of fbackup in Operating System - HP-UX

How to view the contents of fbackup

mehul_3 — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:51:10 GMT

Hi
Could someone please tell, how to view the contents of DAT when using fbackup.
Can we see with tar -tvf? but I don't think it is retrived a contents because some use his backup method by using fbackup

Million Thanks in advance

mehul

Re: How to view the contents of fbackup

melvyn burnard — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:59:16 GMT

use the -I option to recover an index,
or use the -N option to do a full recover EXCEPT that it will NOT write to disc.

man frecover

SAM will also give you a listing if I rememebr correctly

Re: How to view the contents of fbackup

G. Vrijhoeven — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:01:19 GMT

Hi Mehul.

How about an index recovery ( -I )

Check man frecover:

-I path The index on the current volume is extracted from the
backup media and is written to path.

Regards,

Gideon

Re: How to view the contents of fbackup

bhavin asokan — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:01:35 GMT

see the man page of frecover . with -N option you can list the contents of fbackup.

-N (no recovery) Prevent frecover from actually recovering
any files onto disk, but read the backup as if it was, in
fact, recovering the data from the backup, producing the
same output that it would on a normal recovery. This
option is useful for verifying backup media contents in
terms of validity (block checksum errors are reported),
and contents (a listing of files can be produced by using
the -N and -v options together). Note that the listing of
files produced with the -N and -v options requires the
reading of the entire backup, but is therefore a more
accurate reflection of the backup's contents than the
index stored at the beginning of the backup (which was

created at the start of the backup session, and is not
changed during the course of the backup).

regds,

Re: How to view the contents of fbackup

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:28:21 GMT

what is saying for,

file

If it is archieved one, then we can view it with tar -tvf there

You can go for sam too get information backup file informations on

sam --> Backup and Recovery --> list file backup

Else,

simply go for suggested frecover -Nv