A shell script for backup and then make lists of backup files and write the list to files in source directories.

backup-and-list

#!/bin/bash
LIST_FILE_NAME='BKLIST.txt'
LIST_CMD='ls -l -R'
pname=$(basename "$0")
usage="$pname [-ls DirGlobToMakeListFile] SourceDir DestDir
OPTIONS
  SourceDir
    A source directory of copying (not a miroring)
  DestDir
    A destination directory of copying
  -ls DirGlobToMakeListFile
    Make list of directories descendants of the destination directory,
    and save this list to correspodent directories descendants of the source
    directory.
    The argument is a shell glob pattern for directories to be listed and
    to which save the list."

while true; do
case "$1" in
-ls|--ls) shift; listglob="$1"; shift;;
-*) shift;;
*) break;;
esac
done
test $# -le 1 && { echo "$usage"; exit 0; }

makelist() {
  src="$1"
  dst="$2"
  listglob="$3"
  for dir in $(cd "$dst"; echo $listglob); do
    test -d "$dst/$dir" || continue
    test -d "$src/$dir" && $LIST_CMD "$dst/$dir" >"$src/$dir/$LIST_FILE_NAME"
  done
}

robocp "$1" "$2"
test -n "$listglob" && makelist "$1" "$2" "$listglob"