how to check backup time by using tar ?

[natis]

how to check backup time by using tar ?

Anyone can help me.

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Put in a script

date (starttime)
tar command
date (end time)

So you can calculate how long your backup was running

[whiteknight]

Hi natis,

you can use

#timex tar xxxxxx


WK

[Dennis Handly]

Did you want to time how long it took as you got in other answers, or when it was done?

[AwadheshPandey]

DH!! He can both from Luk's reply :)

[Dennis Handly]

>Awadhesh: He can both from Luk's reply :)

Not if only the tarfile was available.

[Geoff Wild]

I think he wants to know the backup time of an existing tar archive.

Tar does NOT store it's archive date.

What you can do, is create a file prior to the tar command in your script, something like:

LABEL=LABEL.`date +%b%M%d%H`

touch $LABEL
then
tar cvf sometarfile.tar $LABEL morefile

Then, to see timestamp of the archive,

tar tvf sometarfile.tar |grep LABEL

Rgds...Geoff