On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> 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.