On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 05:01:33PM +0200, Montagni, Giovanni wrote: > Using amrecover is it possible to view files attributes without reestore data? > For example, is possible to know the creation date of a file backed up 3 days > ago? or if it was in read-only?
Unix systems do not store a "creation date" for a file. The "ctime" entry is "inode 'c'hange time". Initially it matches the creation time, as do mtime and atime. But if you change the permissions, rename/move the file, lots of other things, ctime changes and no longer matches the creation time. Thus, to my knowledge, backup programs don't bother storing the original files ctime as on recovery it can't be set to match. Permissions are stored in the backup file by dump and tar. But they are not in any index that amanda maintains. It would be necessary to scan through the archive file with the 'v'erbose option of the backup program to view them. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
