Simple tool for managing archived data stored across a number of offline discs or volumes, with a separate online index, and optional redundancy/recovery files. Split into sub-commands.
Storage volumes are identified by a short label, like XERGQP, and can be
either rewriteable media, like HDDs/SD cards, or write-once media, like BD-R discs.
You can save data onto volumes, store them away offline, and use the index to
query which ones you need to access or restore certain files. Volumes are
single, large files, with meta information and parity data to allow recovery
due to corruption. Multiple volumes can be stored per disk.
The storage is presented as a single unified folder hierarchy; sections can be built and restored by path.
Automatically looks for and identifies storage volumes based on system drives
with ABCDEF.arcdiscvist folders in the top level or an arcdiscvist
folder.
Works from a local folder on volatile storage that acts as the place to build volumes from and restore them to, and which will mirror the storage folder hierarchy.
Configuration is stored in ~/.arcdiscvist or in /etc/arcdiscvist.
Only works on linux-based systems for now.
arcdiscvist list [<PATH>]
Lists files in the index by directory, like ls. With no arguments, lists the root directory.
arcdiscvist find <PATTEN>
Finds files in the index according to the PATTERN, which supports unix-style globbing on the path.
arcdiscvist build <VOLUME_PATH> <PATH> [<PATH> ...]
Looks at the source directory, and builds as much of it as possible that is not already in the index into a new volume.
You can specify which paths to consider as command-line arguments.
You can also request a different minimum number of copies with the -c
argument; if a file is not present on this many different volumes, it will be
added to the built volume. The default number of copies is 1.
You should specify the path of the new volume; if it is a writeable CD/DVD/BR drive, it will be burned with the new image, otherwise, it will be mounted and written to directly.
arcdiscvist restore <PATH> [<PATH> ...]
Given one or more paths in the archive, prompts for the volumes needed to fully restore them and copies the data into the source directory.
arcdiscvist verify
Runs verification on volumes to see if they're corrupted, and if so, if they still have enough parity information to be recoverable.
arcdiscvist index
Adds details on all available volumes into the index. Will remove any files no longer present on the volumes, and ignore ones that are already indexed.
arcdiscvist volumes [<LABEL>]
Lists all volumes the system knows about along with basic details. Provide a label to just see details about a single volume.
arcdiscvist destroyed <VOLUME_LABEL>
Marks a volume as destroyed or lost, removing all entries credited to it
from the index. You can undo this operation by running index on the volume.