How can i keep track of my files?

bar1 · 5. Januar 2017

Hi everyone
my setup is OMV with 7 hard drives, running greyhole to protect my pictures and music folders.
last year i lost 2 of my drives, and lost a lot of linux distros....greyhole did it's job and doesn't look like i lost any photos or music files.

my linux distros can now be downloaded again, but i am not sure whats missing?
so i need a software to keep track of my files, and notify me if anything missing, i also have 1000's of photos and i need to make sure they are all there.

thanks,
Bar1

ryecoaaron · 5. Januar 2017

I don't know of anything that does that. If you are looking for something that you could do manually once in a while, you could do the following

1. find /media/* -type f > /root/list_of_files-1

at a later time, make another list:

2. find /media/* -type f > /root/list_of_files-2

To check if a file is missing:

3. for file in $(cat /root/list_of_files-1); do if ! grep -q "${file}" /root/list_of_files-2; then echo "${file} not found"; fi; done

After checking, you would have to rotate the files:

4. mv /root/list_of_files-2 /root/list_of_files-1

Then start at step 2 each time you want to check. If sure there is a better and/or faster way but this is the first thing that came to mind.

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