(25-09-2016, 01:33 PM)venam Wrote: Yep, I've tried it, it's pretty nice.
I like the idea of keeping track of changes in bulk.
I'm not sure it's the best way but it's a good approach.

There's also "shatag" which can save the checksums in actual file metadata if your file system supports it (xattrs -- not available on OpenBSD and NetBSD, are they?):

https://bitbucket.org/maugier/shatag

This could be nicer because checksums aren't lost on file renames. Haven't tried this one, yet.

(25-09-2016, 01:33 PM)venam Wrote: Probably incremental backups with diffs can solve this.
Maybe by showing the diffs, like rsync with the verbose option.

Yeah, I'm going to try something like that.

I was thinking about doing this "review process" more often than I do actual backups. For example, let's say you create one backup a week. If you had a tool that could give you a report each day (!) on which files have been removed/added/updated, that might be easier to handle than to just read this report once a week.

(Remember, this isn't about "noisy" data, but about stuff like music. There's not a lot going on there, so I guess that most of the time nothing happens at all.)