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Old 11-30-2010, 01:12 PM
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Determining date of an SD backup

Is there an easy way of looking at a Super Duper backup disk and determining the date and time it was done. I can sort of get to it by looking for the latest modification dates of files but it's a bit trial and error. This assumes I don't have access to the original log file by the way
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There's no really 'easy' way, no...
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Old 12-28-2010, 02:34 PM
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Dave, why won't the Date Modified in the Get Info window on the target volume work?

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Old 12-28-2010, 04:54 PM
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Because that's generally modified by Finder directly, and isn't stored in a file or folder... so, you wouldn't see it updated (in my experience).

You can write a shell script, of course, to touch a file in the 'root' of the drive that would have the date/time, but that's not an easy process...
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Old 12-29-2010, 01:36 PM
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Yesterday I did an SD backup onto a drive that was last used as an SD destination drive in July. The volume Get Info showed a July Date Modified.

Today I checked the volume Get Info and it shows Yesterday as the Date Modified.

Isn't this what's supposed to happen? I'm not sure I fully understand what you're saying.

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Old 12-29-2010, 02:13 PM
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That's what's supposed to happen, but we haven't found it to be consistent behavior, so I don't consider it reliable.
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Old 12-29-2010, 02:27 PM
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You can write a shell script, of course, to touch a file in the 'root' of the drive that would have the date/time, but that's not an easy process...
Any chance of Shirt Pocket adding this as a feature to SD! so users don't have to write shell scripts? It could be selected as one of the 'On Successful Completion' options.

I'd love to be able to rely on the volume Date Modified info to determine the date of the backup.

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Old 12-29-2010, 02:29 PM
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There's always a chance, Dave, but it's not a widely requested feature.
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Old 12-29-2010, 03:05 PM
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You can write a shell script, of course, to touch a file in the 'root' of the drive that would have the date/time, but that's not an easy process...
After backing up "Boot" drive, I have SD run a shell script (named "Finish Boot.command") to run an AppleScript script (named "Finish Backup.scpt") which touches a dummy file (named "Boot Date"). The shell script is:

osascript ~/Documents/SuperDuper/Finish\ Backup.scpt Boot &

The AppleScript script is:

on run {backupDisk}
tell application "Finder"
set modification date of file ((path to documents folder as string) ¬
& "SuperDuper:" & backupDisk & " Date") to current date
end tell
(other stuff here)
end run

Another AppleScript (run at startup) reads the dummy file modification date and notifies me when it's time for the next backup. This has all proven to be extremely reliable.

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Old 01-28-2011, 01:03 PM
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billearl,

That is very interesting. It surely is more elegant than my technique of putting some blue painter's tape on the drive with the date of the backup.

I think the only thing that would be nice to add would be a contextual menu item "Date of Backup" which would access the date in the file or perhaps display the date in a Get Info.

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