Xfind a new idea to do mmfinder (https://github.com/mmagnus/mmfinder). This is more like a concept so I encourge you to fork it if you wish and change it for setup.
server <-> client:
magnus@malibu:~/bin$ cat xfind.sh
locate -d ~/.local.db $@
magnus@malibu:~/bin$ cat xfind_update.sh
updatedb --require-visibility 0 -o ~/.local.db -U /home/magnus;
and make dbs of external drives:
updatedb --require-visibility 0 -o ~/.hd.db -U /mmt/HD;
Good:
- fast!
- update under crontab on remote machines
- offline locate search for drives
Bad:
- you have to have access to machines to do a search (or istead of ssh /cmd/ do a local database sshfs-ed drive (ee external drives)