No, not rsync, I do however have that high on my "to do" list.
I have scripts that make tar files, copy to a second machine and (some
of them) burn to dvd, run via cron jobs. They run on a daily or weekly
schedule and am quite happy with them. Fairly regularly I test (also
via a script) that the files will copy off dvd and extract to an
alternate location. I can see the total size of the restored files, and
it's approximately the right size to within an expected difference due
to the continual creation or updating of files.
However I don't know 100% for sure that I am excluding or including all
the files or folders I think I am. Currently I have to do a manual
examination of folders if I want to check that I'm not missing something
crucial and so am looking for a cleverer way to do it.
Krusader is supposed to do a directory comparison, I can't currently get
it to work....
Roger
Nick Rout wrote:
Also the --dry-run option to rsync would tell you what differs.
I assume you are using rsync to sync the files anyway?
On Wed, January 16, 2008 12:14 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
There is probably a better tool, but how about:
ls -lR dir1 > tmpfile1
ls -lR dir2 > tmpfile2
diff tmpfile1 tmpfile2
On Wed, January 16, 2008 12:05 pm, Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, I am looking for list recommendations on packages or methods for
recursively comparing the contents of a couple of folders, and listing
just the names of files and folders that are absent in one or the
other. The purpose of this is as part of testing my backup routine,
where I restore the tar file somewhere, and want to see which files are
not in the restore.
A command line option would probably be fine depending on level of
complexity. I thought diff might have been just the thing, but it
examines the file content, which isn't what I'm interested in. There
are a few recommendations for mc, however I'm not a fan (sorry Nick).
Cheers,
Roger
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Nick Rout
