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Rsync partially does this, but it won't search for identical files within your backup. This software does just that. '''In my case I saved ONE THIRD of the backup diskspace on one single backup alone.''' And what is more, FreeDup found more identical files within backups' trees themselves, hence correcting Rsync and saving me terabytes of space.

Rsync partially does this, but it won't search for identical files within your backup. This software does just that. '''In my case I saved ONE THIRD of the backup diskspace on one single backup alone.''' And what is more, FreeDup found more identical files within backups' trees themselves, hence correcting Rsync and saving me terabytes of space.

'''Without FreeDup's hardlinks my current off-site backup would be 3.4TB, but instead it is only 240MB. That is 12 backups in total - 3x monthly, 4x weekly and 5x daily backups + the current backup running.'''

'''Without FreeDup's hardlinks my current off-site backup would be 3.4TB, but instead it is only 270MB. That is 12 backups in total - 3x monthly, 4x weekly and 5x daily backups + the current backup running.'''

This document describes the installation and configuration options of the freedup in Affa's post job for the purpose to reclaim free space on your disk occupied by duplicate files.

This document describes the installation and configuration options of the freedup in Affa's post job for the purpose to reclaim free space on your disk occupied by duplicate files.