topic Re: Getting the Tape Create date in Operating System - HP-UX

Getting the Tape Create date

Prathap_1 — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:24:03 GMT

Hi
Can any body throw some light on how to get the tape created date, i mean how to get the date from tape that the backup has performed.

Thanks
Prathap.

Re: Getting the Tape Create date

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:29:56 GMT

Hi:

If the backup was done with 'fbackup' then you can use 'frecover -V ...' to extract the volume header information from the tape, thereby giving the backup date. Have a look at the man pages (1M) for 'frecover'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Getting the Tape Create date

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:30:32 GMT

I'm not sure if there is a way with any of the various tape utilities. But the first thing we REALLY need to know is how was the backup tape created?

Was it via tar, cpio, fbackup, pax, omniback.....?

Re: Getting the Tape Create date

harry d brown jr — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:31:35 GMT

Prathap,

It depends on the type of backup.

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harry

Re: Getting the Tape Create date

harry d brown jr — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:53:46 GMT

If it's any kind of tape, and you backed up /tmp, then the restore option of that command that can list just the files backed up without restoring them will give you a good idea of when the backup was created, unless of course you don't have a lot of activity on /tmp.

for tar:

tar -tvf | grep /tmp|more

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harry