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=== Version ===
{{ #smeversion: freedup}}
=== 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 ===
The FreeDup package is in the Dag repository, if you have not installed it already you need to do that first:{{Repository|Dag}}
====SME8====
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 />
see [[dag|dag repository]] <br />
To install the package issue the following command:
To install the package issue the following command:
yum install freedup --enablerepo=dag
yum install freedup --enablerepo=dag
====SME9====
To install the package issue the following command:
yum install freedup --enablerepo=smecontribs,smedev
=== Usage ===
=== Usage ===
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]])
=== References ===
* Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedup
* FreeDup homepage http://freedup.org
* Wiki article [[Affa]]
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