Re: View Archive Tapes

This is for Online 7. Assuming tbtape will do what ontape does-and that might be a a poor idea-you can get an identifier of an archive tape with: dd if=<device> of=<filename> bs=5120 count=10 od -c <filename> With these two commands you get ten blocks of tape info and then dump them. The dump will tell you you have an archive backup, the online version in use and a time stamp. While it does not tell you the archive level, it does allow corroboration with the time stamp in your online.log file(or whatever you call it) as the log indicates a timestamp and level for archives. The time stamps should be within a few seconds of each other. Good luck -- Con Woodall Colorado St. U.; Veterinary Teach. Hosp.; Ft. Collins CO 80523, USofA; 970-491-1244 FAX 970-491-4100 cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu "Ask me about my vow of silence!" -- On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Chris Youll wrote: > Is there a way to view what is on an archive tape created with tbtape -s > to verify if it is a level 0, 1, or 2. tblog -l -d <device> |pg will let > you see what the starting log number is for the backup. > > Thanks, > Chris Youll > Database Administrator > Dillon Companies, Inc > (303)393-4113 > cyoul@dillon.com > > >