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On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:14:17 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: |
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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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> I must say I've tried to do my homework, and below are a few tools |
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> that come close, but not quite... |
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> (A) `rdup` is probably the closest to what I'm searching. However |
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> there are a few issues: |
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> * it's output format is not very parsable, especially in cases |
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> like symlinks, and a few other special cases; |
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> * it doesn't escape the file names --- and from some reason I have |
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> files containing escape sequences in them... |
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> * it records only SHA-1; |
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> * it doesn't handle ACL's or extended attributes; |
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> (B) `mtree` from FreeBSD. I found two ports of it for Linux, |
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> however my main concern is how parsable is the output... |
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> (C) `md5deep` (or `sha*deep`), which only records the checksum not |
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> other meta-data. |
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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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Have a look at 'tripwire'. It's primarily an intrusion detection tool, but it does the job |
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by recording file meta-data and checksums, then checking to see if they have |
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changed. I can't remember if it handles ACL's, as it's been a few years since I used it. |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ |
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Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: |
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro |
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