Here is a patch for multiple bugs and issues I have run into with the perl version of freedups. The main site is http://www.stearns.org/freedups/. I have emailed the author with no response. Given that Internet email is continually less reliable this does not surprise me. I am posting my patches here in hopes that others will find them useful and that eventually the author of freedups will notice.
I'm still fixing issues and testing but I feel confident to run this on my backups of 4T. The script runs over the new backup each day which can be up to 2T. (I'm using discremental-lite for backups)
The issues I ran into:
To fix the File::Compare problem I grabbed the latest Compare.pm out of the latest version of perl and replaced the one on my system.