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Posted May 09, 2008 at 5:53:44 PM
Subject: Looking for good Back Up+Duplicate File Program

Have been searching for good Back Up and a good Duplicate File program.

Sure there are others who who would like opinions on what is the best Back Up software.
Again, Duplicate File removal program that is safe and easy to use.

Have been learning "Bash" but, not confident enough to carry out many critical commands.

Thank you for your attention.
tom

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Shashank Sharma
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Posted: May 16, 2008 2:04:13 PM
Subject: Looking for good Back Up+Duplicate File Program

Tom, here are three links for respectively these three duplicate file finders: fdupes, uniq and fslint:

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/08/find-duplicate-copies-of-files/
http://www.liamdelahunty.com/tips/linux_remove_duplicate_lines_with_uniq.php
http://www.linux.com/feature/120000

As for backup, there are all kinds of excellent backup applications. what distribution are you running? There is pybackpack, sbackup and many more. Search your distribution repository.

http://www.debianadmin.com/backup-and-restore-your-ubuntu-system-using-sbackup.html
http://www.howtoforge.com/backup-with-pybackpack-on-fedora8

Cheers!

Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress.

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