Re: How I can know a back up database is up to date

On 09/08/2007 23:40, son@raider.co.nz wrote:

> My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this
> database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table).
>
> If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property.
> How I can do the same thing with a back up database.

Do the backup from a shell script that names the output file with the
current date/time.

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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