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 589CA1381F3 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E716E08C0; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f43.google.com (mail-bk0-f43.google.com [209.85.214.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF99CE0831 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f43.google.com with SMTP id jm2so973886bkc.30 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:01:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=NHttBRuFhcEL55XdmjAE3zde9EEkjwSf9dCKUw3YIGk=; b=J/BIFUXBPfnfI6bIJuqa2YVo7pLgSGZ/4I/ACuWskiTmBr/HgC++FuBeIRqdLXfJbT XUJyxjrHF0eKjrJQggsfMFGExrqfN4BsK4OIRMRh2xO415on3ckRJ1vYbxhHoisLaJsM HNB5WkNTdfG3vwvefG393ODus2DPk0sDlwrG+fOscLWlH/fX4kNhqz6qtMIZOe3jpxlM amumYnLaJRwjiISQr+LiLwdrW6tdj/c4WuIsAyG68h0LBSvEUyT0+6+6exinB0hO2hHi ZubbPpZzZ6e2vMYOdRXu5Oq0c7F74Hz4FF7kuF0ya16PQCMN41llclz1tkxV9NkCLkLF zu0Q== X-Received: by 10.204.175.198 with SMTP id bb6mr1725396bkb.9.1371448877213; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:01:17 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.204.164.79 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:00:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51BEA427.5040308@binarywings.net> References: <51BEA427.5040308@binarywings.net> From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:00:35 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 958b751c-200e-4dab-988f-87b280d5f933 X-Archives-Hash: e4238f9b06d38ccd7834e325907fdaa4 On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp 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.