[email protected] wrote: > > I use rdiff to do the backups on the "server" (its job is serving video > content to the TV box over NFS) and ran into that problem, so what I did was > write a series of scripts that relinked identical files. It's not perfect, > I suspect there are still bugs. It tries to be efficient (by not comparing > files that can't possibly be the same because they have different sizes, or > are already linked), but it gets the job done. Eventually. Running it > takes about as long as running the backup in the first place. But hey, > we're talking about 1 GiB of filespace which might change by 10-20 MiB > between backups, so not a big deal.
Possibly of interest: Debian package rdfind: Description: find duplicate files utility rdfind is a program to find duplicate files and optionally list, delete them or replace them with symlinks or hard links. It is a command line program written in c++, which has proven to be pretty quick compared to its alternatives. -dsr-
