Follow-up to moving the photos

As I mentioned in my previous post, I also copies my pictures onto an external drive (with the sidecar files) and thought that by importing them, I'd recreate the original database.
Of course, that didn't happen because of what's in the database and NOT in the XMP files.  I made some changes to the photos on the external drive through that external drive's LR catalogue.
Is anyone aware of a tool that will let me compare the two catalogues, database to database, and tell me the differences?
I suppose asking if anyone knows the schema, too, would be helpful, but it's unnecessary if it's embedded in the tool.
Thanks

If my understanding of database updating is correct, unless I can specify conditions under which the target database should accept the new values, the contents of the partially valid database on the external drive will overwrite valid data.
Once I get this straightened out, backups are not an issue.  This correction is a bit of a problem, though.

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