On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:09, David T-G wrote:
Carl --
...and then Carl William Spitzer IV said... % % What do we have to catalogue files on several media and multiple drives?
What sort of information do you need in the catalog(ue)? Just the file names and locations, or plus date/time/size, or plus analysis of type, or plus commentary?
Perhaps a simple
find /path/to/tree -print
either spat onto a catalog file or fed into a database would do. Perhaps you'd need a -ls to get other data. Perhaps running file(1) on each is necessary (and intensive, I'm sure). Perhaps you can read commentary from some other metadata source rather than requiring manual input to build the catalog.
% % Not all of which are linux based.
Well, what are they?
If they're all some *NIX, you're in good shape. If they include Win, then you could still be happy thanks to the CygWin toolkit. If it's NAS, then mount the drive(s) from a *NIX box and be happy. If they're VMS, OS/2, mainframe (though that can run Linux!), or other, then I expect you have a bit more work ahead of you.
Actually I want a database. Some of my backup CDR are archives or articles which are from the other OS. Eventually a special archive of these based on title and name will be needed but I have as many freeware / shareware files to index by name location description. CWSIV