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=== Purpose ===

=== Purpose ===

There are situations in backup process that Affa (with or without Rsync) can't handle well.

There are situations in backup process that [[Affa]] (with or without Rsync) can't handle well.

Imagine backing up user files in a company where documents are distributed on regular basis. It is very likely that all of your users will have a copy of the same file in their documents.

Imagine backing up user files in a company where documents are distributed on regular basis. It is very likely that all of your users will have a copy of the same file in their documents.

=== Installation ===

=== Installation ===

http://software.neuper.de/freedup/download.html

The FreeDup package is in the Dag repository, if you have not installed it already you need to do that first.

You need to activate the [[Dag]] reposity before installing this contrib.<br />

 

 

 

 

=== Usage ===

=== Usage ===

To use FreeDup with Affa, first install and setup latest version of Affa.

To use FreeDup with Affa, first install and setup latest version of Affa. Installation instructions for Affa can be found [[:Affa | here]].

Then add this

Then add this

{{Note box|msg=Please be aware that once you launch FreeDup, it can take several hours to complete, depending on the size of backups as it its algorithm is making sure that files that are to be hardlinked are the same. }}

{{Note box|msg=Please be aware that once you launch FreeDup, it can take several hours to complete, depending on the size of backups as it its algorithm is making sure that files that are to be hardlinked are the same. }}

{{Note box|Also, make sure you have the latest version of Affa, at the time of writing this document, it is this one:

{{Note box|Also, make sure you have the latest version of Affa installed. At the time of writing this document, it was Affa 1.0.0-2.}}

 

http://neddix.com/sme7/smeserver-affa-1.0.0-2.el4.sme.noarch.rpm}}

===User experience===

===User experience===

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. - [[User:Giskaard | Giskaard]] ([[User_talk:Giskaard|talk]] | [[ Special:Contributions/Giskaard| contribs]])

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. - [[User:Giskaard | Giskaard]] ([[User_talk:Giskaard|talk]] | [[ Special:Contributions/Giskaard| contribs]])

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