From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:52:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BEA427.5040308@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Tk8fzFgKAJB422CKgCHTtXm56_qp8iR1aqte-03b6s-UvtWA@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 16.06.2013 23:14, schrieb Ciprian Dorin Craciun:
> Hello all!
>
> While struggling with managing various old backups --- just
> imagine 10 or so copies of almost the same content, some with `rsync`,
> some with `rdiff-backup`, yet some others on plain ISO's, all over a
> range of a few years --- I stumbled upon the following missing piece
> in the Linux tools ecosystem: a file-system crawler that records
> **only** meta-data, like all the info available through `stat`, plus
> an assortment of hashes of the files (at least MD5 and SHA-1,2
> family), and optionally ACL's and extended attributes. Thus I was
> wondering if someone knows a tool that fits this description.
>
>
[...]
>
> Thus, are there any other alternatives? (Just to be clear, I
> don't need a "backup" solution, just something to record file-system
> meta-data. Maybe a "meta-backup" solution... :) )
>
> Ciprian.
>
Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`?
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-16 21:14 [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 5:52 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2013-06-17 6:00 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 7:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-06-17 7:25 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 15:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-06-17 16:40 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 7:42 ` Paul Colquhoun
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