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Hard-linking and disk-space... whatever...
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Toying yet more with compressing rdiff-backup repositories with hard-linking. Turns out there's already someone who's done it. My script for hard-link finding is different than the (packaged) one he's using, but it seems to have the same basic idea (I use filecmp, though, rather than reading the files myself, and I don't check owner/group/mode ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.