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