On 10/7/24 16:06, Dan Ritter wrote:
eben@gmx.us wrote:I use rdiff to do the backups on the "server" ... and ran into that problem, so what I did was write a series of scripts that relinked identical files.Possibly of interest: Debian package rdfind: Description: find duplicate files utility rdfind is a program to find duplicate files and optionally list, delete them or replace them with symlinks or hard links. It is a command line program written in c++, which has proven to be pretty quick compared to its alternatives.
That's cool. I wonder if the apt subsystem on there still works. The
installation's pretty old. It's off 90+% of the time and behind double-NAT
the rest, so I'm not excessively worried.
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