From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:14:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+Tk8fzFgKAJB422CKgCHTtXm56_qp8iR1aqte-03b6s-UvtWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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.
I must say I've tried to do my homework, and below are a few tools
that come close, but not quite...
(A) `rdup` is probably the closest to what I'm searching. However
there are a few issues:
* it's output format is not very parsable, especially in cases
like symlinks, and a few other special cases;
* it doesn't escape the file names --- and from some reason I have
files containing escape sequences in them...
* it records only SHA-1;
* it doesn't handle ACL's or extended attributes;
(B) `mtree` from FreeBSD. I found two ports of it for Linux,
however my main concern is how parsable is the output...
(C) `md5deep` (or `sha*deep`), which only records the checksum not
other meta-data.
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.
next reply other threads:[~2013-06-16 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-16 21:14 Ciprian Dorin Craciun [this message]
2013-06-17 5:52 ` [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker Florian Philipp
2013-06-17 6:00 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 7:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-06-17 7:25 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 15:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-06-17 16:40 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 7:42 ` Paul Colquhoun
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