[Info-vax] backup /image on Windows or Unix?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kdorln$bsu$2 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2013-01-23, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>> One of the nicest features of VMS is backup/image. Take a badly 
>> fragmented disk as input, and you will get a beautiful structured disk 
>> as output, all files contiguous etc.
>>
>> I have always been looking for utilities that can do the same in Windows 
>> and Unix, but I never found them.
>>
> 
> In Unix land have you considered a dump and restore sequence ?

Or the fact that defragmentation is seldom if ever needed on Unix filesystems.

** /dev/ad4s1a
** Last Mounted on /
** Root file system
2138 files, 286668 used, 219819 free (2883 frags, 27117 blocks, 0.6% fragmentati
on)

** /dev/ad4s1e
** Last Mounted on /tmp
18 files, 21 used, 506466 free (34 frags, 63304 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)

** /dev/ad4s1f
** Last Mounted on /usr
511196 files, 9230891 used, 23406146 free (77194 frags, 2916119 blocks, 0.2% fra
gmentation)

** /dev/ad4s1d
** Last Mounted on /var
28558 files, 91462 used, 2657823 free (23015 frags, 329351 blocks, 0.8% fragment
ation)

** /dev/da0s1d
** Last Mounted on /archive
241149 files, 93064509 used, 143440310 free (9678 frags, 17928829 blocks, 0.0% f
ragmentation)

** /dev/ar0s1d 
** Last Mounted on /users
1128838 files, 150083077 used, 86421742 free (166710 frags, 10781879 blocks, 0.1
% fragmentation)

bill

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