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Am 16.06.2013 23:14, schrieb Ciprian Dorin Craciun: |
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> Hello all! |
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> While struggling with managing various old backups --- just |
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> imagine 10 or so copies of almost the same content, some with `rsync`, |
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> some with `rdiff-backup`, yet some others on plain ISO's, all over a |
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> range of a few years --- I stumbled upon the following missing piece |
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> in the Linux tools ecosystem: a file-system crawler that records |
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> **only** meta-data, like all the info available through `stat`, plus |
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> an assortment of hashes of the files (at least MD5 and SHA-1,2 |
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> family), and optionally ACL's and extended attributes. Thus I was |
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> wondering if someone knows a tool that fits this description. |
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> Thus, are there any other alternatives? (Just to be clear, I |
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> don't need a "backup" solution, just something to record file-system |
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> meta-data. Maybe a "meta-backup" solution... :) ) |
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> Ciprian. |
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Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`? |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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