kissarch

Keep It Simple Stupid ARCHive for data that needs proof of non-change, e.g. incoming digital invoices in an accounting context

Mode of Operation

• set the immutable attribute on files
• set files to read-only (chmod 0440)
• create a list of checksums of all files in the archive
• offer tool to compare those checksum lists, to see what changes have occurred between list creation and now.

Status

Work in Progress. Known to be incomplete.

It may ruin your data and your day - it did ruin mine twice during development.

Prepare Test environment on the development machine (one time):

of course, you must adjust pathnames to your own directory structure

adjust /etc/kissarch/paths.conf.testing to your testing scenario

sudo mkdir -p /etc/kissarch
sudo ln -s /home/martin/nc/homecloud/Documents/projekte/kissarch/etc-kissarch/paths.conf.testing /etc/kissarch/paths.conf
sudo ln -s /home/martin/nc/homecloud/Documents/projekte/kissarch/etc-kissarch/digest.conf /etc/kissarch/digest.conf
sudo ln -s /home/martin/nc/homecloud/Documents/projekte/kissarch/kissarch-immutable-1-file /usr/local/sbin/
sudo ln -s /home/martin/nc/homecloud/Documents/projekte/kissarch/kissarch-fixate-1 /usr/local/sbin/
sudo ln -s /home/martin/nc/homecloud/Documents/projekte/kissarch/kissarch-fixate-all /usr/local/sbin/
sudo ln -s /home/martin/nc/homecloud/Documents/projekte/kissarch/kissarch-digest-file /usr/local/sbin/
sudo ln -s /home/martin/nc/homecloud/Documents/projekte/kissarch/kissarch-digest-1 /usr/local/sbin/
sudo ln -s /home/martin/nc/homecloud/Documents/projekte/kissarch/kissarch-digest-all /usr/local/sbin/

Do your test runs to test-archive-old. That one is filles with (dommy) data.