Using NTFS hard links to combine full/differential backups
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Short: Is it possible to (robo)copy a directory tree using hard links instead of physical copy? I want to make a daily backup of my data files, every day in it's own directory. Now most files don't change every day, so my idea to speed up backup and use less disk space was to copy the backup of (da…
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Fix for: Using NTFS hard links to combine full/differential backups
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There is a way to make backups like you say, but I don't believe with Robocopy alone. There are several programs that will hard link or dedupe backups, and be space efficient. Here are a few programs I've used or ran across: Dupemerge - free - While…
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