fbackup

[Prathap_1]

Hi
Can any one throw some light on how to get the back up performed date or file creatred/modified date from the tape if the backup was taken using fbackup option. I am able to see the contents of the tape using frecover option, whereas I am not able to get the date.

Thanks
Prathap.

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

This shows info about when the tape was made.
# frecover -vf /dev/rmt/0m -V /tmp/info

I don't think you can see the timestamp of the files until you physically frecover it.

[Patrick Wallek]

You should be able to do:

# frecover -V /dev/rmt/?m

This will read the tape header and will give you the time that the backup was started. See 'man frecover' and go to the '-V' option for more information.

[Patrick Wallek]

Ah heck, I didn't read close enough:

# frecover -f /dev/rmt/?m -V /tmp/file_name

Will read the tape header from /dev/rmt/?m and output it to /tmp/file_name. Sorry about that.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Restore the volume header from the archive, This will give you the archive creation date,

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

Look at the Time field in this file.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Bill Hassell]

The short way (and immediate results) is:

frecover -V - -f /dev/rmt/xxxx

You can use - to indicate stdout for the short volume header.