Jeffrey writes:

> I have been considering the following:
> - Uncompressing the full file to determine its length..
>         But this is very computationally inefficient for large files...

Right.

> - Unpacking attrib file but this seems
>         This seems best, but I'm not sure what are the best/easiest
>         subroutines for parsing the attrib file
>         (I looked at Holger's BackupPC_attribCheck and to my naive eyes it
>         looked pretty complicate)

Using the attrib file is the best way.  See bin/BackupPC_attribPrint
for an example.

Craig

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