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Old 05-12-2005, 04:51 PM
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PROBLEM: Backup copy directory highly fragmented

SuperDuper is advertised and promoted as a solution for disk defragmentation.

However, DiskWarrior's graph reveals that a backup copy made from SuperDuper contains 32% directory fragmentation.

Copies made by other utilities or the Finder do not exhibit this high degree of directory fragmentation.

This contradicts some of the benefits promoted for SuperDuper.





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Old 05-12-2005, 04:59 PM
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We quite clearly mention, in the white paper, that we "roughly defragment your system files". We make no claim of directory structure defragmentation, and also suggest people buy iDefrag if fragmentation is a serious issue.

We do nothing weird when we copy files, walking them in "natural folder order" as returned from fts, so I don't see how you'd get different results with other tools... the files are copied sequentially, in order....
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We do nothing weird when we copy files, walking them in "natural folder order" as returned from fts, so I don't see how you'd get different results with other tools... the files are copied sequentially, in order....
That's why I would expect little or no fragmentation in the directory... so it was very strange to see that problem with SuperDuper.

Perhaps you can use DiskWarrior to conduct some experiments?
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As this is just a general side benefit of the copying operation (as we said in the paper), it's not something we're likely to spend a ton of time on. But, we'll certainly re-check the copy logic.

What exact tools did you use that showed different results? Were they file-by-file?
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Old 05-12-2005, 05:28 PM
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What exact tools did you use that showed different results? Were they file-by-file?
Finder, Synchronize! Pro X, several others I can't recall right now.

Copying whole volumes to blank disks, copying groups of folders to blank disks, etc.

Also, copying to disks containing data already that have defrag'ed directories- the directories remain mostly defrag'ed.


In fact, the original disk we copied with SuperDuper had a directory that was only 3% fragmented (according to DiskWarrior). Copying with SuperDuper resulted in a copied disk with a directory that was 32% fragmented. That is not good!...
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OK. I don't know what they're doing differently, but when we get a chance we'll take a look. It could be they're walking the disk structure with Carbon, which is giving the files back in a different order.

As I said, we use the Unix-level calls to walk the hierarchy. That's the order we recreate in, exactly as given to us...
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