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NAME

       bedup - program for deduplication program with additional knowledge of
       burp


SYNOPSIS

       bedup [options]

       A file deduplication program with additional knowledge of burp storage
       directories. This program comes with the burp backup and restore
       package.


OPTIONS

       -c path
              Path to config file (default: /etc/burp/burp.conf).

       -g <list of group names>
              Only run on the directories of clients that are in one of the
              groups specified. The list is comma-separated. To put a client
              in a group, use the 'dedup_group' option in the client
              configuration file on the server.

       -h|-?  Print help text and exit.

       -d     Delete any duplicate files found. (non-burp mode only, use with
              caution!)

       -l     Hard link any duplicate files found.

       -m  <number>
              Maximum number of hard links to a single file. (non-burp mode
              only - in burp mode, use the max_hardlinks option in the
              configuration file) The default is 10000. On ext3, the maximum
              number of links possible is 32000, but space is needed for the
              normal operation of burp.

       -n <list of directories>
              Non-burp mode. Deduplicate any (set of) directories.

       -v     Print duplicate paths. Useful if you want to double check the
              files that would be hard linked or deleted before running with
              one of those options turned on.

       -V     Print version and exit.

       By default, bedup will read /etc/burp/burp.conf and deduplicate client
       storage directories using special knowledge of the structure.

       With '-n', this knowledge is turned off and you have to specify the
       directories to deduplicate on the command line. Running with '-n' is
       therefore dangerous if you are deduplicating burp storage directories.


BUGS

       If you find bugs, please report them to the email list. See the website
       <http://burp.grke.net/> for details.


AUTHOR

       The main author of Burp is Graham Keeling.


COPYRIGHT

       See the LICENCE file included with the source distribution.

                               February 10, 2012                      bedup(8)

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