NAME

       bedup - 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)