catalog files on hdd in order to find later on backups

[Juan Shen]

Claud and a little question:  if -l option is used, -s option seems to 
be useless.
The -s option is just the same as -l, except that -s does not display 
the file owners.
    Juan Shen

Jeff Kinz wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:38:53PM +0200, Marius Andreiana wrote:
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>>Is there a tool which would catalog files on hdd in order to find later
>>on backups? Here's the detail:
>>We backup a fileserver on dvds, complete and incremental (with
>>mondorescue). We need a web application running on same server and
>>accessible to all workstations which would let users search for a file
>>and tell which dvd(s) they need for it.
>>We can't use a regular cataloging application for CDs, as the info on
>>them it's compressed and some it's mondorescue-specific.
>>    
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>ls -lagsR $CATDIRS > ${CATALOGSDIR}/`date +%m.%d.`
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>where CATDIRS is an environment variable containing the paths to the
>directories that will be backed up. (It could be just "/")
>and CATALOGSDIR is an environment variable containing the path to the
>directory were the catalogs will be held
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