Last backup date blank

Even though my Time Machine appears to be working, the Last Backup date is blank both in the menu bar status and in System Preferences. How do I correct this?

I'm not sure where that's stored, but it may be in the preference file.
Stop TM, de-select your TM drive (select "none"), note any exclusions in Options and quit System Preferences.
Trash the file /Libarary/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist (not in your home folder).
Go back to TM Preferences, re-select your TM drive, re-enter any exclusions, turn TM back on (and perhaps do a +Back Up Now.)+

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I've noticed that whether or not the Time Machine volume is mounted, the icon in the menu bar displays the last backup date. Is there any way I can read this data from the command line? I found the excellent tms utility (http://fernlightning.com/doku.php?id=software:misc:tms) but it seems to only give the date of last backup if the volume is mounted.
I'm trying to create a simple script that notifies (via email) me if someone in my office hasn't backed up with Time Machine in over X days. Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm not sure where it's recorded on the disk when the TM drive is unmounted but you can see it in system log. so if you grep through the log you'll find the record of the last backup. to see just the date the following will do for example
cat /private/var/log/system.log |grep backup |tail -1 | awk '{print $1" " $2" "$3}'
However, those logs are periodically recycled and if you don't back up in a while this info will be gone from the current system log and the command will return an empty output. you'd have to deal with that somehow. you could for example run the command periodically with a launch daemon and and store the outcome in a file so long as the outcome is not empty.

Whatâs up with âLast Backupâ date?

I have a 10g database running on Redhat and I can never get the Last Backup date to change. I was set by the Oracle default backup and has not changed yet. As you can see the data is 4/17/04.
High Availability
Instance Recovery Time (seconds) 12
Last Backup Apr 17, 2004 2:07:53 AM
Archiving Enabled
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Flashback Logging Disabled
When I click on the date link this page shows a more current backup, I think? Any idea what is going on? Is my database backed up?
Results
Select All | Select None
Select Key Tag Completion Time Contents Device Type Status Obsolete Keep Pieces
249 TAG20050330T023107 Mar 30, 2005 2:31:10 AM SPFILE, CONTROLFILE DISK AVAILABLE NO NO 1
248 BACKUP_MAIN.ARGUSR_033005021640 Mar 30, 2005 2:30:53 AM ARCHIVED LOG DISK AVAILABLE NO NO 1
244 BACKUP_MAIN.ARGUSR_033005021640 Mar 30, 2005 2:23:15 AM DATAFILE DISK AVAILABLE NO NO 1

Fraid so .. there are way too many weird things and gotchas with this product.
At this point I would delete the database from oem.
Go into targets, select the db click remove.
After about 10 minutes (or check the Management tab, overview .. verify the deletion was complete.
Go back to the agent tab, click Go to the database prompt for it to rediscover the database.

Time Machine shows no last backup date or oldest backup date

Hi,
Sorry for the long title and if this question has already been posted, a search didn't show it up. I'm running leopard 10.5.6 on my iMac 2.4ghz intel, and the time machine icon in the menu bar has stopped showing the date of the last backup and when I check in sys pref no date info is shown for the most recent of the oldest.
Anyone have any idea how to cure this.
Thanks.
Jez.

I have been using TM for about a month with a new LaCie d2 Quadra. I do not know how this is calibrated for dates. When I activate TM it shows today. For anything back from there it dates everything January 17, 2009 6:45 PMCDT until it goes back to February. In the spot indicating the latest backup it is Jan 17 09 6:45 PMCDT for today. What do you think is responsible for time and date being the same and the actual backups are dated with the wrong date going back until clicking back in time it's the Jan. date until March 20,2009 January 17,2009 6:45 AMCDT. I tried the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist idea. No change.

Last Backup Date doesn't change

Since installing BB Desktop 6 (including the beta), my last desktop date has never changed from my initial install date (7/26/10 @ 5:25 pm).
I had hoped the release version would solve this. I back up daily, but the date does not change on the DM6 "home screen". I have verified that the back-ups are in the correct path and are valid back up files (I can restore data).
I have searched through the registry and various RIM files in the users/appdata, program files/common files directories, but see no file that is obviously the source of the date fed to DM on start-up.
I tried a repair install. No dice.
My install was an upgrade from 5.0.1, and I didn't wipe and reinstall because I didn't want to lose my add-in sync and custom filter options. In DM5, I had weekly back-up set and it worked like clockwork...although I couldn't see the date, it was obviously keeping track...now if I set to weekly, it attempts to back up whenever I connect because it thinks it is 2 weeks late.
If this is the worse issue I have with DM6, so be it...just annoying more than anything else...
Also...I installed on 2 other PCs (3 total)...the issue is only present on the 1 PC.

In the case of the Browser Data Cace that one is really easy to get rid of.
Start Desktop Software 6
Attach your BB
Wait for, or cancel the sync / backup
Click Device
Click Delete Device Data
Change the radio button from "All data" (Why is that the default?) to "Selected data"
Scroll down to "Browser Data Cache" and check it.
Uncheck the "Back up data" box, since you are unable to backup this database anyway...
Click Delete
When asked to confirm the deletion, click "Ok"
You shoudl see a progress bar and the message "Deleting Browser Data Cache"
Once it completes, you will get a dialog that says "Your data has been deleted", click close.
That shoudl return the browser data cache to a clean state and eliminate the problem. I'm not sure if the same procedure will work on your profile database or not. I know in my case when the profile database gets corrupted, I end up restoring it from a backup before the corruption, and it ends up being fine again for a long time.
John Wohlers

Powershell / SQL Inventory and last backup date Skips some servers?

Good Morning experts... I have a text file with a list of servers.. I am trying to automate a script that scans through them all and checks all databases to ensure everything is getting backed up... It works great (I copied the guts of the script from here,
I think and modified it so I could "Learn"). The only problem I have is some of the servers report an error saying can not connect and bypasses it. After the script is over, I can go back and query that single server and it responds correctly..
Has anyone else come across anything like that? I will include the script I have been using.. if you had 100+ servers to support with MULTIPLE instances on each how would you do it?
<#####################################################################
# Get All instances and Date of last Full / Log Backup of each
######################################################################>
#region Variables
$TextFileLocation = "C:\serverlist.txt"
$intRow = 1
$BackgroundColor = 36
$FontColor = 25
#endregion
#Region Open Excel
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $True
$Excel = $Excel.Workbooks.Add()
$Sheet = $Excel.Worksheets.Item(1)
#endregion
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foreach($instance in Get-Content $TextFileLocation)
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,1) = "INSTANCE NAME:"
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,2) = $instance
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,1).Font.Bold = $True
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,2).Font.Bold = $True
for ($column =1; $column -le 2; $column++)
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, $column).Interior.Colorindex = 44
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, $column).Font.ColorIndex = $FontColor
#Increase Row count by 1
$intRow++
#Create sub-headers
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,1) = "Name"
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,2) = "LAST FULL BACKUP"
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,3) = "LAST LOG BACKUP"
#Format the column headers
for ($col = 1; $col -le 3; $col++)
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,$col).Font.Bold = $True
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,$col).Interior.ColorIndex = $BackgroundColor
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,$col).Font.ColorIndex = $FontColor
#Finished with Headers, now move to the data
$intRow++
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO') | Out-Null
# Create an SMO connection to the instance in servers.txt
$s = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') $instance
$dbs = $s.Databases
foreach ($db in $dbs)
if ($db.Name -ne "tempdb")
if($db.LastBackupDate -eq "1/1/0001 12:00 AM")
$fullbackupdate = "Never Backed Up"
$fgColor = "red"
else
#$fullBackupDate= "{0:g2}" -f $db.LastBackupDate
$fullBackupDate = $db.LastBackupDate
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 1) = $db.Name
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 2) = $db.LastBackupDate #$fullBackupDate
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$logBackupDate="Simple"
else
#See Date Above..-eq is same as =
if($db.LastLogBackupDate -eq "1/1/0001 12:00 AM")
$logBackupDate="Never"
else
#$logBackupDate= "{0:g2}" -f $db.LastLogBackupDate
$logBackupDate = $db.LastLogBackupDate
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 3) = $logBackupdate
$intRow ++
$intRow ++
$Sheet.UsedRange.EntireColumn.AutoFit()
cls
Am I going about this the correct way, or is there a "Better" way to do this that I have not come across yet?
Thank you

Sorry JRV... I will put more of an example here.
I want to do an inventory of all our our instances and verify if they are being backed up correctly, I just wrote a script to test:
$TextFileLocation = "C:\servers.txt"
foreach($instance in get-content $TextFileLocation)
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO') | Out-Null
$s = New-Object ("Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SMO.Server") $instance
$dbs = $s.Databases
foreach($db in $dbs)
$location = $db.Name
$logBackupDate = $db.LastLogBackupDate
if($db.RecoveryModel.Tostring() -eq "SIMPLE")
Write-host "$s - $location - SIMPLE Recovery"
elseif($db.RecoveryModel.ToString() -ne "SIMPLE")
Write-Host "$s - $location - $logBackupDate"
output is expected, and everything works fine... But some servers I get the following error:
PS K:\MyScripts\powershell> . 'C:\Users\scj0025\AppData\Local\Temp\Untitled30.ps1'
foreach : The following exception was thrown when trying to enumerate the collection: "Failed to connect to server poly04406.".
At C:\Users\scj0025\AppData\Local\Temp\Untitled30.ps1:9 char:8
+ foreach <<<< ($db in $dbs)
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], ExtendedTypeSystemException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExceptionInGetEnumerator
If I go to another script and look at the same server, I get the results I expect:
Function Get-SQLInstance {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Retrieves SQL server information from a local or remote servers.
.DESCRIPTION
Retrieves SQL server information from a local or remote servers. Pulls all
instances from a SQL server and detects if in a cluster or not.
.PARAMETER Computername
Local or remote systems to query for SQL information.
.NOTES
Name: Get-SQLInstance
Author: Boe Prox
DateCreated: 07 SEPT 2013
.EXAMPLE
Get-SQLInstance -Computername DC1
SQLInstance : MSSQLSERVER
Version : 10.0.1600.22
isCluster : False
Computername : DC1
FullName : DC1
isClusterNode : False
Edition : Enterprise Edition
ClusterName :
ClusterNodes : {}
Caption : SQL Server 2008
SQLInstance : MINASTIRITH
Version : 10.0.1600.22
isCluster : False
Computername : DC1
FullName : DC1\MINASTIRITH
isClusterNode : False
Edition : Enterprise Edition
ClusterName :
ClusterNodes : {}
Caption : SQL Server 2008
Description
Retrieves the SQL information from DC1
#>
[cmdletbinding()]
Param (
[parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$True,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$True)]
[Alias('__Server','DNSHostName','IPAddress')]
#[string[]]$ComputerName = Get-Host "C:\serverlist.txt"
[string[]]$ComputerName = $env:COMPUTERNAME
Process {
ForEach ($Computer in $Computername) {
$Computer = $computer -replace '(.*?)\..+','$1'
Write-Verbose ("Checking {0}" -f $Computer)
Try {
$reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $Computer)
$baseKeys = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Microsoft SQL Server",
"SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Microsoft SQL Server"
If ($reg.OpenSubKey($basekeys[0])) {
$regPath = $basekeys[0]
} ElseIf ($reg.OpenSubKey($basekeys[1])) {
$regPath = $basekeys[1]
} Else {
Continue
$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey("$regPath")
If ($regKey.GetSubKeyNames() -contains "Instance Names") {
$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey("$regpath\\Instance Names\\SQL" )
$instances = @($regkey.GetValueNames())
} ElseIf ($regKey.GetValueNames() -contains 'InstalledInstances') {
$isCluster = $False
$instances = $regKey.GetValue('InstalledInstances')
} Else {
Continue
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ForEach ($instance in $instances) {
$nodes = New-Object System.Collections.Arraylist
$clusterName = $Null
$isCluster = $False
$instanceValue = $regKey.GetValue($instance)
$instanceReg = $reg.OpenSubKey("$regpath\\$instanceValue")
If ($instanceReg.GetSubKeyNames() -contains "Cluster") {
$isCluster = $True
$instanceRegCluster = $instanceReg.OpenSubKey('Cluster')
$clusterName = $instanceRegCluster.GetValue('ClusterName')
$clusterReg = $reg.OpenSubKey("Cluster\\Nodes")
$clusterReg.GetSubKeyNames() | ForEach {
$null = $nodes.Add($clusterReg.OpenSubKey($_).GetValue('NodeName'))
$instanceRegSetup = $instanceReg.OpenSubKey("Setup")
Try {
$edition = $instanceRegSetup.GetValue('Edition')
} Catch {
$edition = $Null
Try {
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
#Get from filename to determine version
$servicesReg = $reg.OpenSubKey("SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services")
$serviceKey = $servicesReg.GetSubKeyNames() | Where {
$_ -match "$instance"
} | Select -First 1
$service = $servicesReg.OpenSubKey($serviceKey).GetValue('ImagePath')
$file = $service -replace '^.*(\w:\\.*\\sqlservr.exe).*','$1'
$version = (Get-Item ("\\$Computer\$($file -replace ":","$")")).VersionInfo.ProductVersion
} Catch {
#Use potentially less accurate version from registry
$Version = $instanceRegSetup.GetValue('Version')
} Finally {
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Continue'
New-Object PSObject -Property @{
Computername = $Computer
SQLInstance = $instance
Edition = $edition
Version = $version
Caption = {Switch -Regex ($version) {
"^11" {'SQL Server 2012';Break}
"^10\.5" {'SQL Server 2008 R2';Break}
"^10" {'SQL Server 2008';Break}
"^9" {'SQL Server 2005';Break}
"^8" {'SQL Server 2000';Break}
Default {'Unknown'}
}}.InvokeReturnAsIs()
isCluster = $isCluster
isClusterNode = ($nodes -contains $Computer)
ClusterName = $clusterName
ClusterNodes = ($nodes -ne $Computer)
FullName = {
If ($Instance -eq 'MSSQLSERVER') {
$Computer
} Else {
"$($Computer)\$($instance)"
}.InvokeReturnAsIs()
} Catch {
Write-Warning ("{0}: {1}" -f $Computer,$_.Exception.Message)
When I run this command, I get:
PS C:\Users\scj0025\Documents> Get-SQLInstance -ComputerName poly04406
SQLInstance : SQL642K5_01
Version : 9.2.3042.00
isCluster : False
Computername : poly04406
FullName : poly04406\SQL642K5_01
isClusterNode : False
Edition : Enterprise Edition (64-bit)
ClusterName :
ClusterNodes : {}
Caption : SQL Server 2005
SQLInstance : CONSQL2K8
Version : 10.0.2531.0
isCluster : False
Computername : poly04406
FullName : poly04406\CONSQL2K8
isClusterNode : False
Edition : Enterprise Edition
ClusterName :
ClusterNodes : {}
Caption : SQL Server 2008
I notice to get this information the get-sqlinstance script is looking at the registry.. is that the "Better" way to get an accurate list of this?
(I understand they are looking for different things, but why wont the first script pick up the different instances on the server, I wonder...)

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tt2

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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/epm.111/fr_user/frameset.htm?launch.html
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