Montagni, Giovanni wrote:

Using amrecover is it possible to view files attributes without reestore data?

using amrecover, no.

For example, is possible to know the creation date of a file backed
up 3 days ago? or if it was in read-only?

Once you have located the tape, and filenumber,
you can easily do something like:

amrestore -p -f 99 /dev/thetape hostname /disk/name | tar -tvf -

and see the permissions and modification time in full.

Note: unix does not have a "creation" date: ctime is the time the inode
was last changed (and when never changed, that is when the time
when created indeed; but changing permissions or forcing an atime,
would update ctime).

But, actually, this is a good question, because, it looks like
the mtime, ctime and atime are indeed stored inside a tar archive,
but there is no way you can list them, AFAIK.


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