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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4bf05$50ffe973$5ed43c14$5400 at cache90.multikabel.net>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 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.
> 
> Does any one in this group know such utilities?

   Windows has an on-disk defragger.  You have to run it manually.  I
   run it every couple of months.  I've seen adds for an automatic 
   defragger that runs in the background on Windows.

   UNIX doesn't seem to be sensitive to fragmenting in UFS.  Probably
   because it caches so much.