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Downloads:

3,032

Downloads of v 1.104:

264

Last Update:

13 Feb 2023

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Hermann Schinagl

Tags:

cli ntfs data-integrity checksum dedupe freeware

Dupemerge

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1.104 | Updated: 13 Feb 2023

Downloads:

3,032

Downloads of v 1.104:

264

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Hermann Schinagl

Dupemerge 1.104

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Hermann Schinagl. The inclusion of Hermann Schinagl trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Hermann Schinagl goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Verification Testing Passed

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Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Dupemerge, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Dupemerge, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Dupemerge, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade dupemerge -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade dupemerge -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install dupemerge
  win_chocolatey:
    name: dupemerge
    version: '1.104'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'dupemerge' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '1.104'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller dupemerge
{
    Name     = "dupemerge"
    Version  = "1.104"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'dupemerge':
  ensure   => '1.104',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

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Package Approved

This package was approved by moderator Windos on 19 Feb 2023.

Description

Overview

Dupemerge searches for identical files on a logical drive and creates hardlinks among those files, thus saving lots of hard disk space. Most hard disks contain quite a lot of completely identical files, which consume a lot of disk space. This waste of space can be drastically reduced by using the NTFS file system hardlink functionality to link the identical files ("dupes") together.

### Technical

Dupemerge creates a cryptological hashsum for each file found below the given paths and compares those hashes to each other to find the dupes. There is no file date comparison involved in detecting dupes, only the size and content of the files.

To speed up comparison, only files with the same size get compared to each other. Furthermore the hashsums for equal sized files get calculated incrementally, which means that during the first pass only the first 4 kilobyte are hashed and compared, and during the next rounds more and more data are hashed and compared.

Due to long run time on large disks, a file which has already been hashsummed might change before all dupes to that file are found. To prevent false hardlink creation due to intermediate changes, dupemerge saves the file write time of a file when it hashsums the file and checks back if this time changed when it tries to hardlink dupes.

#### Multiple Runs

If dupemerge is run once, hardlinks among identical files are created. To save time during a second run on the same locations, dupemerge checks if a file is already a hardlink, and tries to find the other hardlinks by comparing the unique NTFS file-id. This saves a lot of time, because checksums for large files need not be created twice.

#### Transaction based Hardlinking

Before DupeMerge hardlinks file together it renames the file to a temporary name, then creates the hardlink, and afterwards deletes the temporary file. All that is done to be able to roll-back the operation if e.g the hardlinking failes.

#### TimeStamp Handling

A tupel of hardlinks for one file has always the one timestamp. This is by design of NTFS. But things are a bit confusing sometimes, because after hardlinking the same timestamp is only shown, after the hardlink was once e.g. opened/accessed. So it may happen, that immediatley after dupemerge one observes different timestamps within a tupel of hardlinks, but after such a hardlink has been opened for e.g. read, the timestamp changes to the timestamp of the whole tupel. That's also by design of NTFS.

Dupemerge has a dupe-find algorithm which is tuned to perform especially well on large server disks, where it has been tested in depth to guarantee data integrity.

### Documentation
* FAQ
* Manual


tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$packageName = 'dupemerge'
$url = 'https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/dupemerge/save/1104/dupemerge.zip'
$checksum = 'a5af1a0cf95f7e6fcb805a7447d09b63f933ecc35c75360fde7840cac31090af'
$checksumType = 'sha256'
$url64 = 'https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/dupemerge/save/1104/dupemerge64.zip'
$checksum64 = '363d756ec91d6558b4956ea80464b264202d8c2be1706e06faeac86bac0899ea'
$checksumType64 = 'sha256'
$toolsDir = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"

Install-ChocolateyZipPackage -PackageName "$packageName" `
                             -Url "$url" `
                             -UnzipLocation "$toolsDir" `
                             -Url64bit "$url64" `
                             -Checksum "$checksum" `
                             -ChecksumType "$checksumType" `
                             -Checksum64 "$checksum64" `
                             -ChecksumType64 "$checksumType64"

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Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Dupemerge 1.103 694 Saturday, November 30, 2019 Approved
Dupemerge 1.102 365 Monday, January 28, 2019 Approved
Dupemerge 1.080.0.20170625 505 Thursday, September 21, 2017 Approved
Dupemerge 1.080 572 Sunday, June 18, 2017 Approved
Dupemerge 1.07 554 Sunday, April 19, 2015 Approved

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