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Jay Weaver SC
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‎12-06-2005 03:30 AM

‎12-06-2005 03:30 AM

How to tell last time a backup tape was used

I am looking for some old data and I have about 40 DDS2 backup tapes to look through. How would I find out when the tapes were used last. I am using Unix 10.2

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Jay
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James R. Ferguson
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‎12-06-2005 03:36 AM

‎12-06-2005 03:36 AM

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Re: How to tell last time a backup tape was used

Hi Jay:

If they are 'fbackup' tapes you can extract the volume header information thusly:

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

The time (in epoch seconds) the backup was run along with the number of times the media was used for *fbackup* (only!) will be returned. Have a look at the man pages for 'frecover' for the layout.

Regards!

...JRF...
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Jay Weaver SC
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‎12-06-2005 05:36 AM

‎12-06-2005 05:36 AM

Re: How to tell last time a backup tape was used

the response by JRF was on target.

Thanks,

Jay
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