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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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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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> [...] |
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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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Nop, wouldn't do the job, because `cp --attributes-only` requires |
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a target file system, however I need something which "records" those |
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attributes in a file that I can use afterwards to restore them (or |
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compare them with further versions, etc.). |
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Ciprian. |
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