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NoDouble is a duplicate correction tool. It scans your drives for duplicate file. Unlike most tools, it replaces duplicates with hard links. A duplicate file is file with the same content, the same size, but not necessarily the same name or extension. When two duplicates or more are found, at least one of them is replaced with a hard link that points to the same data in the first file. Effectively, a hard link is a file, not a shortcut, and by removing the first file, the second file will still be present with all of its data. ...

Rsync time backup is a shell script that provides Time Machine–style backups using rsync, with a focus on being simple, flexible, and cross-platform. It creates incremental backups of files and directories, placing each snapshot in its own timestamped folder so you can restore files by simply copying them from the backup tree. Unchanged files between backups are represented as hard links, which means you get a full snapshot view of each backup while using minimal additional disk space. The...