* Jeroen Vermeulen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait :
> Some of my system directories remain unchanged for long periods of time,
> so subsequent backup tarballs are byte-for-byte identical. Would it be
> possible to eliminate such duplicates?
>
> At the very least, replace them with hardlinks. A more advanced scheme
> might detect a duplication and replace the older of two matching files
> with a softlink to the newer one, so that e.g. CD backups could benefit
> from the same elimination of duplicates.
>
> (Note that always replacing the _older_ of the identical files with a
> link reduces the risk of accidentally deleting the archive and then
> being stuck with dangling links instead of a backup)
That's a great idea.
I'm implementing this new feature. It will be available in the 0.5.8
release.
Thanks :)
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