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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

glastree application 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 compress out unchanged files, while modified ones are copied verbatim. A prune utility effects a constant, sliding...


Platforms: *nix

TreeSize for Unix is a disk consumption analyzing tool, which sorts folders according to their physical occupied sizes. The perfect tool to help you obtaining more disk free space, on your hard drive, usb pen drive or even on network folders (provided that they are mounted and you have access...


Platforms: *nix

Rsync Vault Manager is an archive manager that uses rsync to manage backups of multiple clients across multiple logical partitions (vaults). Rsync Vault Manager has some features that some other rsync-based backup schemes lack, such as being written in C++, needing no scripts or other programs...


Platforms: *nix

rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals....


Platforms: *nix