Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker

[Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> 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`?


    Nop, wouldn't do the job, because `cp --attributes-only` requires
a target file system, however I need something which "records" those
attributes in a file that I can use afterwards to restore them (or
compare them with further versions, etc.).

    Ciprian.