* Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker
@ 2013-06-17 5:52 99% ` Florian Philipp
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From: Florian Philipp @ 2013-06-17 5:52 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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