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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.
      
=== Installation ===
 
=== Installation ===
   
To install FreeDup, visit project's homepage and download the latest rpm and install:
 
To install FreeDup, visit project's homepage and download the latest rpm and install:
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CentOS or RedHat binary works fine.
 
CentOS or RedHat binary works fine.
      
=== 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.
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Command line options are beyond the scope of this document, in my case I only use -T to preserve timestamps and -v for some verbosity.
 
Command line options are beyond the scope of this document, in my case I only use -T to preserve timestamps and -v for some verbosity.
      
=== Various Tests ===
 
=== Various Tests ===
   
To see how much your backup occupies, you may find these commands below useful.
 
To see how much your backup occupies, you may find these commands below useful.
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  find <insert your directory with backups> -xdev -type f -links +1 -printf '%i %p\n' | sort -n > links.txt
 
  find <insert your directory with backups> -xdev -type f -links +1 -printf '%i %p\n' | sort -n > links.txt
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{{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. }}
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{{Note box|Also, make sure you have the latest version of Affa, at the time of writing this document, it is this one:
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=== NOTE! ===
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  http://neddix.com/sme7/smeserver-affa-1.0.0-2.el4.sme.noarch.rpm}}
 
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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. My backups
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Also, make sure you have the latest version of Affa, at the time of writing this document, it is this one:
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  http://neddix.com/sme7/smeserver-affa-1.0.0-2.el4.sme.noarch.rpm
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=== Document Maintainer ===
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Robert Gruber
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[[Category:Backup]]
 
[[Category:Backup]]

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