Hard Links

The library born to solve a problem I had when working with the Linux Kernel archives that I use to replicate using hard links. Replicating archives with hard links is both fast and space saving, and it helped me a lot in speeding up my operations when working on the kernel source. A recent... Platforms: *nix

Symlink Creator was developed as an Open Source piece of software that was developed in order to simplify the process of creating symbolic and hard links. It is basically a GUI for the MKLINK command in Windows, which makes creating the links much easier. Platforms: Windows

NTFS Link is a Windows Shell Extension, which hooks into Windows Explorer Drag&Drop Actions to provide extended functionality for creating hard links and directory junctions on NTFS file systems. Hard links provide a machanism to keep a file or a directory in more than one locations in a file...

Same Files Assistant is ultimate application for hard links managment. This utility can create hard links. You can do it manually or from results of analyzing your disk for duplicate data results. This will help you not to use space for duplicate files storing. Functionality of hard links can be... Platforms: Windows

Duplicate & Same Files Searcher (Duplicate Searcher) is an application for searching duplicate files (clones) and NTFS hard links to the same file. It searches duplicate file contents regardless of file name (true byte-to-byte comparison is used). This application allows not only to delete... Platforms: Windows

Unsurrogater is a powerful utility that allows you to search for and manage duplicate files across different data sources. With unsurrogater you can do the following:- Search for duplicate files inside Disk Drives, Network Shares, CD/DVD - ROMs, FTP Server & Sharepoint Server. Search... Platforms: Windows

dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files, taking care of hard links, Extended Attributes, sparse files, MacOS's file forks, any inode type (including Solaris Door inodes), etc. It has been tested under Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X and several other... Platforms: Windows

Almost every Windows system contains numerous duplicate files. Ashampoo Duplicate Finder finds and deletes redundant files and lets users reclaim their disk space. To ensure that your applications continue to work without issues, the program keeps a master file and replaces all redundant copies... Platforms: Windows

Alax.Info NTFS Links extends Microsoft Windows XP operating system shell by adding additional features related to soft and hard links supported by NTFS file system Platforms: Windows

PropertyEditor is a context menu extension for Windows Explorer. Upon installation, it adds a host of new property editing capabilities. It lets you configure the context menu for the selected files, folders, or drives, change icons for the selected files and folders, create a report about the... Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Check if your backups really work Hey there OS X user! Do you back up your files? Of course you do! (Right? Right???) But do your backups work? Really? Are you sure? Have you checked? Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It's a command-line-based test suite... Platforms: Mac

ccache is a compiler cache. It speeds up recompilation by caching previous compilations and detecting when the same compilation is being done again. Supported languages are C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++. Features * Keeps statistics on hits/misses. * Automatic cache size management. *... Platforms: *nix

Snapback2 is a Perl module that does backup of systems via ssh and rsync. It creates rolling "snapshots" based on hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly rotations. When it runs for some period of time, you will end up with a target backup directory that looks like: drwx--x--x 81 106 staff 4096 Jan... Platforms: *nix

RVM is an archive manager that uses rsync to manage backups of multiple clients across multiple logical partitions (vaults). It has some features that some other rsync-based backup schemes lack, such as being written in C++, needing no scripts or other programs than rsync and any binaries on... Platforms: *nix

Developer comments The FL-COW library born to solve a problem I had when working with the Linux Kernel archives that I use to replicate using hard links. Replicating archives with hard links is both fast and space saving, and it helped me a lot in speeding up my operations when working on the... Platforms: *nix

Formerly known as FTP++ P2P, NetFile is a multi-threaded FTP client with resuming, passive mode, simultaneous multi-socket file transfers. Features: - Ad-supported and totally FREE to use with the option of removing ads by registration - Very fast, robust and user friendly - Multi-threaded and... Platforms: Windows

ExtUtils::Manifest is a Perl module that contains utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file. SYNOPSIS use ExtUtils::Manifest qw(...funcs to import...); mkmanifest(); my @missing_files = manicheck; my @skipped = skipcheck; my @extra_files = filecheck; my($missing, $extra) =... Platforms: *nix

File::Find::Parallel allows you to traverse a number of similar directories in parallel. SYNOPSIS use File::Find::Parallel; my $ffp = File::Find::Parallel->new( qw( /foo /bar ) ); print "Union:n"; my $union = $ffp->any_iterator print " $_n" while $_ = $union->(); print... Platforms: *nix

Bky is a minimalistic, distributed Version Control System/Source Code Management tool. Bky uses rsync as a backend to store revisions as complete trees, optimizing the size by storing unchanged files as hard links.. Platforms: *nix

trigger is a lightweight, asynchronous notification mechanism to set off events in and across systems. The poor mans daily snapshot, glastree builds live backup trees, with branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older documents or retrieve lost files. Hard links serve to... Platforms: *nix