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

VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG
Fri Jan 25 06:57:33 EST 2013


In article <kdsqpa$c4g$2 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <kds5le$k74$1 at dont-email.me>, Chris Scheers <chris at applied-synergy.com> writes:
>>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> Actually, for post XP Windows (Vista, Win 7, Win 8), the defragger is 
>>> automatic.
>>>
>>> Interestingly, the Windows defrager (introduced in Windows 2000) is a 
>>> stripped down descendant of the Windows version of Diskeeper.
>> 
>> The primary reason I avoid WEENDOZE altogether!!!
>> 
>
>What is the rank of that reason?
>
>It's my understanding that you have over 100 reasons, and all of them 
>are primary ....

No, just one.  CoS.

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