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How to know fbackup tape creation date

 
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Randy Hagedorn
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How to know fbackup tape creation date

Hi,

We have a tape created by fbackup, but are uncertain as to when the tape was created. Is there a method to determine the creation date without recovering any files from the tape?

Thanks in advance,
Randy
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Helen French
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Re: How to know fbackup tape creation date

Place the tape in drive /dev/rmt/0mn:

# frecover -V /tmp/vol_header_info -f /dev/rmt/0mn
# cat /tmp/vol_header

The "Time" field will tell you the date which it was created.
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Sridhar Bhaskarla
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Re: How to know fbackup tape creation date

Hi,

Extract the header. The header will have the date information.

frecover -V /tmp/header.txt -f /dev/rmt/0m (or your tape drive device file)

Cat /tmp/header.txt

-Sri
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Helen French
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Re: How to know fbackup tape creation date

A typo on the second command:

# cat /tmp/vol_header_info
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Randy Hagedorn
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Re: How to know fbackup tape creation date

Forum users,

Thanks for the assistance, it worked beautifully.

The forum is a wonderful resource.

Randy