hard link identical files in a backup dir?

Brett Delmage <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have multiples backup images created from rsnapshot. Due to a changed 
configuration during setup, one set is not 'linked' - identical files 
are duplicated in this backup set, instead of being a hard link. This 
obviously increases the storage required greatly.

Before scratching my head too long on this and scripting something to diff 
and link where files are identical, is there a way I could use use cp or 
rsync to re-hard link the identical files in the duplicated set, leaving 
just the different versions of files in place - and reducing my storage 
by almost 200 GB?

Brett

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