How to generate complete file list of hard drive and output to text file

I need to start backing things up to drives, which over time will be put in storage.
I would like to be able to create a complete file index and folder tree of every drive and have it output to a text file so that in the event I ever need to go back to a drive, I can search the text file to know what drive to pull from storage (rather than using spotlight to search through 25 drives).
Is there any way to do this with either OS X or with a third party software? Ideally, text file and not PDF.
Thanks!

You can use the terminal.app with the following command:
rsync -rlptn --stats --progress +Source.. Destination..+
example with actual output:
rsync -rlptn --stats --progress /Volumes/Mac\ Data/websites /Volumes/EXT\ SATA2building file list ...
146 files to consider
websites/
websites/.DS_Store
websites/bestelectricbill.com/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/.DS_Store
websites/bestelectricbill.com/211299c1
websites/bestelectricbill.com/awards.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/careers.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/category1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/category2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/category3.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/checkout.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/company.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/contactus.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/email.js
websites/bestelectricbill.com/faqs.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/fsp.js
websites/bestelectricbill.com/history.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/index.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/index_copy.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/investors.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/job1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/job2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/job3.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/job4.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/job5.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/managementteam.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/news1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/news2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/news3.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/news4.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/news5.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/newsandevents.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/partners.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/press.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/privacypolicy.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1a.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1a1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1a2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1b.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1b1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1b2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1c.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1c1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1c2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1d.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1d1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1d2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1e.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1e1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/product1e2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/products.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/productsearch.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/registration.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/search.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/searchresults.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1a.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1a1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1a2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1b.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1b1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1b2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1c.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1c1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1c2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1d.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1d1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1d2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1e.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1e1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service1e2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/service3.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/services.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/shoppingcart.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/sitemap.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/story1.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/story2.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/story3.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/termsofuse.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/Templates/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/Templates/siteassist_config.cfg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/Templates/siteassist_template.dwt.php
websites/bestelectricbill.com/Templates/_notes/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/Templates/_notes/dwsync.xml
websites/bestelectricbill.com/_notes/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/_notes/dwsync.xml
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/.DS_Store
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/app_img17.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/bestelectriclogo.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/bestelectriclogo.jpg.ori.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/btn_saveBusiness.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/btn_saveHome.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/imgAbout_OverviewTeam copy.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/imgCollage.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/imgComp1.jpg
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websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/phone number.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/phone number2.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/_notes/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/images/_notes/dwsync.xml
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassist_css/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassist_css/color.css
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassistcss/mystyles.css
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassist_css/navigation.css
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websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassist_css/style.css
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassist_css/template.css
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassistcss/notes/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassistcss/notes/dwsync.xml
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassist_images/
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassistimages/above_topnavbackground.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassistimages/below_topnavbackground.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassist_images/border.gif
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassistimages/bottombackground.jpg
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websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassist_images/bubbles.jpg
websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassistimages/dottedhorizontal.jpg
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websites/bestelectricbill.com/siteassistimages/notes/
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Number of files: 146
Number of files transferred: 135
Total file size: 1150921 bytes
Total transferred file size: 1150921 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 2825
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 3717
Total bytes received: 896
sent 3717 bytes received 896 bytes 9226.00 bytes/sec
total size is 1150921 speedup is 249.50
Simply copy and and paste output text in terminal to a text file.
What I actually did there was use the "dry run option" (-n) - no files were actually transferred.
For more info on the rsync command type and run "man rsync" at the terminal command line.
Also see this webpage:
http://www.ss64.com/osx/rsync.html
Kj

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