When was a make recovery tape created?

[Stephen Wm. Jones]

I have some make recovery tapes and the creator did not label with the created date. Is there any way to determine the created date?

[LucianoCarvalho]

hi,

Try to run check_recovery. Maybe it can give you that information.
regards

[john korterman · Accepted solution]

Hi,
first rewind the tape, e.g.
# mt -t rewind

Then check for a particular text string holding the creation date, e.g.:

# dd if= | strings -a | grep -i "Recovery tape created"

For an ignite tape, this should produce a line holding the date. The should be the rewinding device, e,g, /dev/rmt/0m or the like.

regards,
John K.

[Patrick Wallek]

Check recovery has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with cheching anything on the make_recovery tapes.

Your best bet is to do the check previously described, or do a tar and check a file that is modified frequently, like /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for example.

[Stephen Wm. Jones]

John,

Thank a bunch. Perfect, I got exactly what I needed.