Subj: [Announce] offmirror - offline files tree mirroring utility

There are many mirroring tools flying around - mirror, mirrordir,
rsync, cpbk, cvsup, sup, rdiff-backup, unison, (name it yourself).

However, all of them use network or some type of direct connection between
source and destination trees. None of them works offline.

This utility package allows to synchronize file trees offline - all data
needs to be copied can be bringed on removable media.

Pivot of this program is file list with most of the file attributes.
You create file list on destination host, then do the same on source
host. The difference between these two lists is used to determine what
files should be copied from source to destination, what files should be
deleted on destination and what attributes should be changed on
destination files to conform the source tree.

Offmirror works with regular files, directories, symbolic links
and special files (devices, named pipes (fifo), sockets).

File attributes includes: file type, permission bits (in portable text
form), user and group names (not an uid/gid numbers!), major and minor
device numbers (for device files only), file size, modification time,
MD5 digest (for regular files and symbolic links only).

File list has header and footer lines with some extra information,
which includes list format version.
The list contents is protected with MD5 digest so don't ever try to
touch list yourself.

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/offmirror/

Download:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/offmirror/offmirror-1.3.tar.gz
