Getting the Tape Create date

[Prathap_1]

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.

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Patrick Wallek]

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.....?

[harry d brown jr]

Prathap,

It depends on the type of backup.

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harry

[harry d brown jr]

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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