On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:17:57PM -0700, mike item wrote: > Hi All, > > A project on my list at home is consolidation of unorganized backups > smeared across a bunch of ide hdds. Partions are ext2, ext3, vfat, > reiser, etc ... No backups are incremental, so there are lots of > duplicates. <snip>
I've used findup and fslint to consolidate duplicate files like that. They basically automate the process you descriubed. It's a sloooow process. > Any suggestions on the choice of target filesystem? The larger issue > issue is a few hundred cd and dvd backups, but for now, getting rid of > the stack of old hdds would be good. If you want to just get a server up quick, I'd recommend Ext3, which can be upgraded to Ext4 or Btrfs. If you want an adventure, build a NAS using ZFS (on freeNAS, BSD 8 or Nexenta), which can do deduplication without all the hard-linking. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
