what is the timestamp that is listed by bplist when used -ListSeconds

[sugarboy]

Hi All,

Can any one please let me know what is this timestamp (in the below output) related to?

bplist -C nbu01 -S nbu01 -t 0 -l -Listseconds -T /tmp/data/

drwxr-xr-x root      root                0 Jul 26 21:52:48 /tmp/data/
drwxr-xr-x root      root                0 Jul 26 21:45:03 /tmp/data/

Is it backup starttime or endtime?

Regards,

Sagar

[Marianne]

Backup start time is associated with backup images. It should be more or less the same time as when 'Begin writing' is seen in Activity Monitor.

I did a test one day in answer to a forum post (cannot find that thread right now) where I posted evidence.

[sugarboy]

Hi Marriane,

Thanks for the reply

However i dont see the times returned by bplist matching with 'Begin writing' (which is nothing but Start Time) of the respective backups.

If it matches with 'Begin writing', Should we same timestamp for bprestore when doing a TIR for "-e" (which should be end time)?

Actually i have problem with TIR using bprestore where i was trying to restore a true image backup providing -e(which is listed from bplist) option :

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/zh-hant/forums/true-image-restore-fails-through-command-line

Thanks,

Sagar

[Andy_Welburn]

 -l

           Lists in a long format that contain  mode,  owner,
           group,  size  in bytes, and time of last modifica-
           tion for each file (see the EXAMPLES section). The
           list  shows the mode of each file as 10 characters
           that represent the standard UNIX file permissions.

 -Listseconds

           Specifies that seconds granularity be used for the
           time stamp when the -l option is used.

(Honestly thought it was as M said!)

& this certainly seems contrary to what you are expected to put in the "bprestore -e" command for TIR restores.

[sugarboy]

Yes Andy,

this certainly seems contrary to what I'am expecting for "-e"

However i could able to resolve the problem by using -Listpolicy which is listing time stamp UNC format and that matches exactly with the timestamp of catalog entry for the respective backup.