topic Re: How to tell last time a backup tape was used in Operating System - HP-UX

How to tell last time a backup tape was used

Jay Weaver SC — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:30:34 GMT

I am looking for some old data and I have about 40 DDS2 backup tapes to look through. How would I find out when the tapes were used last. I am using Unix 10.2

Thanks,

Jay

Re: How to tell last time a backup tape was used

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:36:58 GMT

Hi Jay:

If they are 'fbackup' tapes you can extract the volume header information thusly:

# frecover -V /tmp/volhdr -f /dev/rmt/0m

The time (in epoch seconds) the backup was run along with the number of times the media was used for *fbackup* (only!) will be returned. Have a look at the man pages for 'frecover' for the layout.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: How to tell last time a backup tape was used

Jay Weaver SC — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:36:44 GMT

the response by JRF was on target.

Thanks,

Jay