ASE stores important information on databases as part of the backup procedure. This information can be retrieved starting with ASE v12.5.4 using the “with headeronly” feature of “load database”.
This will not load the database, so it’s safe to use.
1> LOAD DATABASE db_one FROM "/tmp/test_ce_0.bak.gz"
2> stripe ON "/tmp/test_ce_1.bak.gz"
3> WITH headeronly
4> go
Backup Server session id is: [...]