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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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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-17  5:54 UTC|newest]

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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