Saving space by leaving NTFS hard links with tree size pro
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We have local disk storage and am trying to free up some space on a win 2008 file Server. I'm using Tree size pro and see we have piles of duplicates.
Any idea of leaving NTFS hard links will cause me any issues down the line? The files are a complete mix of word, excel and jpegs. We have good backups just in case
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Rather than trying to remove hard links I would look at applying some kind of deduplication to your file server.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/understand
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@dustinb3403 said in Saving space by leaving NTFS hard links with tree size pro:
Rather than trying to remove hard links I would look at applying some kind of deduplication to your file server.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/understand
You (and @travisdh1 for upvoting) need to read more.. Server 2008 was clearly stated. There is nothing for Server 2008. Even your link states that Server 2008 R2 was the first to have the old infrastructure called "Single Instance Store"
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Not to seem daft, but wouldn't removing the duplicates entirely in order to clean up the file tree/structure make more sense in the long run? I understand that specific users may look in a specific folder for a file expecting it to be there, whereas another user would look another place, but I'd use this time to make the appropriate folder structure and place the files where they belong...
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@jaredbusch said in Saving space by leaving NTFS hard links with tree size pro:
@dustinb3403 said in Saving space by leaving NTFS hard links with tree size pro:
Rather than trying to remove hard links I would look at applying some kind of deduplication to your file server.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/understand
You (and @travisdh1 for upvoting) need to read more.. Server 2008 was clearly stated. There is nothing for Server 2008. Even your link states that Server 2008 R2 was the first to have the old infrastructure called "Single Instance Store"
And your assumption that @shutdown_engineer isn't running R2 is somehow more accurate? And not for nothing, but there are deduplication tools, that can be run on Server 2008 outside of what's provided by microsoft. This was a simple reference to the functionality.
