I’m looking for a way of searching through hard drive contents without needing to connect them. Does something exist to automatically keep an updated list of what was in a hard disk the last time I attached it?
An important part is the interface: Ideally it would appear just like a file manager and show all the offline files on my online system without taking up any of the space. Like a database.
If you just want to list the files, with details about when they were modified and where they are saved, I suggest git-annex. https://git-annex.branchable.com/