From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A97F1381F3 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C536BE0848; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91FDFE078C for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E142029A for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:54:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=binarywings.net; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=7o8LjOp95p50CaxOSiZz+/TE tVU=; b=ks8S3BeGMpq/8fka27q8CX4oVLowfCOXbbLGlDHnQRQ1f4FlgXTwESeT cwSCiSLZj64af33S0v+mZn7sUNCnWNZQDmaKALXpVwTBSv+rVnhkVq3Z42ijGl2x 2Ko3Hf4iYQPif7dWlJVNvwjJhe3ehW/lD2mFa+nzwrkUvkh+AxM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=7o8L jOp95p50CaxOSiZz+/TEtVU=; b=eIvFRPFGVCwgFciRXuqZMDAAZgW/Cor58IfY jAi7nUI6AqZN6y4W9tVV89z3qGRSifPOLT2nW6acfXY4PJ6CaqcabQE4wTdN2w2O GDEXu3kw4BKN8j5VRXyWY1uAnvIBlkJiJ8QTYk2bBMBizEYPr0p3kqVQxtIW9p/P RuUKDwE= X-Sasl-enc: cQiL46S32fvTQDTKAaIiCWqkiUy8W/l9rzSP7qg66w90 1371448456 Received: from [10.202.168.160] (unknown [46.115.40.168]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3C0DD6802A5 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:54:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <51BEA427.5040308@binarywings.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:52:39 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2HHORCLMXLOLOXQOFWFHE" X-Archives-Salt: 4678fc7e-d171-4fe2-a4a4-cf11820c188d X-Archives-Hash: 216dca868a9f21c76a30ca2a9bc5d624 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2HHORCLMXLOLOXQOFWFHE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 16.06.2013 23:14, schrieb Ciprian Dorin Craciun: > Hello all! >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 [...] >=20 > 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... :) ) >=20 > Ciprian. >=20 Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`? Regards, Florian Philipp ------enig2HHORCLMXLOLOXQOFWFHE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlG+pCsACgkQqs4uOUlOuU+9vwCfQAK43qSjngT3WRf0DRYNc9W7 cMUAn2NWWv9f2bq7ac0g98HrzKlnZqgI =S/3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2HHORCLMXLOLOXQOFWFHE--