"gstat -h " - gives you the creation date of the database - HTH.

bill

Walter Neumann wrote:

>Hi Brian
>use a batch job (script) to start gbak and update the database after gbak
>through a SP. Of course then you know the latest back up, but you don't
>know, if the back up was successful.
>
>Walter.
>
>Am Sonntag, 28. September 2003 09:41 schrieb m2data:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>All our customers use cron (nncron) (hate AT) on windows
>>(XP,NT,2000) to run gbak every night before the tape/CD/Zip backup
>>runs.
>>
>>My problem is that I would like to check the date and time of the
>>last gbak from the client and show a popup saying "Your backup is
>>more the 2 days old".
>>
>>The ideal solution would be something like having gbak to write the
>>stamp into the database when gbak finishes!
>>
>>I know I could share the folder on the server and check the date
>>through the filesystem, but some of our customers uses gbak on
>>Zip/CD directly and I don't like shares (people should keep there
>>hands off the server!!)
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>Brian
>>2M-Data ApS
>>
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