Replace duplicates with symlinks

Mumia W. paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 26 11:45:41 UTC 2008


On 07/26/2008 05:06 AM, Alan Milnes wrote:
> I've just invested in a 1Tb external HDD and am consolidating various 
> backups onto it.  What I'd like to do is identify and remove all 
> duplicate files on it but replace them with symlinks to the original.
> [...]

Look at "faubackup" also. It's in the Ubuntu repositories.






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