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Retrospect writes the files contiguously when it does the backup. Then
writes them contiguously when you restore.  If your disk is highly
fragmented the backup takes a lot longer than the restore because it is
reading them from their various locations on your disc and writing them in
one piece to the backup.

I have found that the Retrospect strategy is hours and hours faster than
Plus Optimizer (Which is all I have nowadays).  Though both can run
unattended.

But your point that many mistakenly believe disc de-fragmentation is
unnecessary in OS X is certainly true.  The recommended disc format of OS X
is identical to OS 9 - HFS Plus. It needs periodic de-fragmentation to
perform at top efficiency.


> Amazing, so Retrospect goes through say, a 20 GB drive's worth of
> fragmented files and does what? It moves each non-contiguous file
> into what open drive blocks to get them in a contiguous state? Is it
> faster than Speed Disk?