topic Re: Frecover - time stamp in Operating System - HP-UX

Frecover - time stamp

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 17:13:23 GMT

Hi
I wish to view the files on an fbackup tape but with their time stamp information :-

I have tried frecover -f /dev/rmt/xxx -xNv but it does not give timestamp info.

Can it be done and if so how?

Paula

Re: Frecover - time stamp

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 17:39:32 GMT

Hi Paula:

I don't think there is an option to do/see this. As you probably know, you can (at least) extract the volume header (-V ). That will show the time the fbackup was made. I've found this to be useful.

During an actual recovery, unless you use the "-o" option, you will not actually recover and overwrite a file with an older one. Although this does not address your quest, it is a nice option.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Frecover - time stamp

John Palmer — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 17:45:14 GMT

Hi,

I don't think frecover will give you the info.

Short of writing your own program to analyse the dump file I can only think of actually restoring the file(s) - probably not practicable.

Regards,
John

Re: Frecover - time stamp

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 17:52:11 GMT

Hi

Thanks guys you confirmed what I believed, I will have to go for the recover option to another area.

Paula

Re: Frecover - time stamp

Steffi Jones_1 — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:08:35 GMT

Hi Paula,

you can try to do the following steps for single files:

1) mv the file to a different location
2) frecover -xovf -i /

If you check now the file which is recovered it should have the original date on it.

Have fun,
Steffi Jones

Re: Frecover - time stamp

Trevor Dyson — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:34:57 GMT

Hi,

Do a search in the forum for 'fanalyze'. This tool may list the files with timestamps.

(or may not - I can't remember)

-Trevor