Greetings,  I have a simple script that I created some months ago.  The purpose of this script is to defrag an external USB interface hard-drive that I use to backup various files.  The disk contains mainly *.zip files that are 200,000 KB in size.  I'm wondering if my script should be updated to exploit newer features in MyDefrag.  The script is below.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards,  Jeff

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# MyDefrag v4.0 script: Defragment Backup Hard-drives
#


Title('Backup Drives Defrag (BFP)')
Description("Defragment our backup (non-system) drives.")


/* Automatically exit when the script has finished. */
WhenFinished(exit)

/* Set the CPU Priority */
ProcessPriority(Normal)

WriteLogfile("!LogFile!","LogHeader")

VolumeSelect
  CommandlineVolumes()
VolumeActions

  AppendLogfile("!LogFile!","LogBefore")

  FileSelect
    all
  FileActions
    Defragment(Fast)
    FastFill()
  FileEnd


  /* Write the "after" statistics to the logfile. See the "Settings.MyD" file
     for the definition of the "LogAfter" string. */
  AppendLogfile("!LogFile!","LogAfter")

VolumeEnd

/* Write the footer to the logfile. See the "Settings.MyD" file for the
   definition of the "LogFooter" string. */
AppendLogfile("!LogFile!","LogFooter")

Is this what you had in mind?

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# MyDefrag v4.0 script: Defragment Backup Hard-drives
#


Title('Backup Drives Defrag (BFP)')
Description("Defragment our backup (non-system) drives.")


/* Automatically exit when the script has finished. */
WhenFinished(exit)

WriteLogfile("!LogFile!","LogHeader")

VolumeSelect
  CommandlineVolumes()
VolumeActions

  AppendLogfile("!LogFile!","LogBefore")

  FileSelect
    all
  FileActions
    Defragment(Fast)
    FastFill()
  FileEnd

  AppendLogfile("!LogFile!","LogAfter")

VolumeEnd

Greetings,

My understanding is that the Daily script causes MyDefrag to exit automatically when done, but the Weekly and Monthly scripts cause MyDefrag to NOT exit.  I've examined the scripts and I can't see any command in the scripts that control the exit or stay open behavior.

How do I control whether or not MyDefrag stays open or closes on completion?

Regards,

Jeff

Hi jeroen,

The disk contains 99% backup files by space.

How does the Consolidate Free Space script compare (high level comparison) to the DefragmentOnly script?  Briefly, why would the Consolidate script be better than the DefragementOnly and/or Daily scripts?  Just curious...

Jeff

Greetings,  We have an external hard-drive (USB interface) that we use for backups.  We want to use MyDefrag to keep this backup drive optimized.  Here are some important facts about this external hard-drive:

Interface: USB 2.0
Size: 931 GB
Current Usage: 621 GB
Encryption: TrueCrypt

Most of the files (both by number of files and size) on this external drive are zip files with a size of 200,000 KB.

A couple of times a week, the oldest files on the drive are deleted and new files are copied to the drive.

I've run both the daily and weekly MyDefrag scripts.  The daily script takes 3-4 hours to run, but the weekly script literally takes 2-3 days.

Which script would you recommend I use?  Daily? Weekly? Other?

Regards,  Jeff

MyDefrag is compatible with TrueCrypt, but TrueCrypt disks are not always visible to MyDefrag. For example, Truecrypt on Windows 2000. Also certain TrueCrypt versions.

That explains it for me -- I'm running Windows 2000 with the latest version of TrueCrypt.  Anything I can do to make the drive visible?  I have tried forcing the drive to be defraged using the commandline:

   MyDefrag -r scriptfile G:

However, MyDefrag just pops up for a moment and then closes down...

Jeff

I have an almost exact situation as Gen. Nuisance, Ret.

I have an external hard-drive (USB interface) that I want to defrag.  When I run MyDefrag (v4.2.1) without any commandline parameters, the menu pops up to allow me to choose the script and the drives.  However, my external hard-drive does NOT even appear on the MyDefrag menu.

Some further information regarding this external hard-drive:

1) The hard drive appears as a "Local Disk" under "My Computer".

2) The hard-drive is an encrypted drive (using TrueCrypt).

Is there anything I can do to get MyDefrag to recognize my external hard-drive?

Regards,  Jeff

Please modify MyDefrag so that these two files have stubs in the Settings.MyD file so that we can control these files' location via commandline macro definitions.

Regards,  Jeff

Greetings,  I want to want multiple workstations to run MyDefrag from a shared network drive. 

I've installed MyDefrag on a workstation, and then copied the MyDefrag folder to the shared network drive Q:\bin\MyDefrag\.  Using a customized macro defined on the commandline, I've instructed MyDefrag to save the logfile in a unique location for each workstation.

However, I can't seem to find any way to control the location of the following two files located in the MyDefrag folder:

   MyDefrag.dat
   MyDefrag.debuglog
 
If I have multiple workstations running MyDefrag at roughly the same time, won't they all be stepping on each other as they all try to use the same two files above?  If so, is there any way I can control the location of these two files by specifying a commandline macro?  Or, is my only option to have each workstation running a local copy of MyDefrag instead of a shared network location?

Regards,  Jeff

Thanks for the confirmation, Jeroen.

BTW, thanks for the great software!

Hi Jeroen, I believe you are saying that I can pass in a run-time customized logfile name by the macro commandline (-m)?  Is that correct?  I tried this and it seemed to work:

1) I used the commandline:  MyDefrag.exe -r OptimizeDaily.MyD -m LogFile="Q:\dir1\dir2\mycustomlogfile.txt"

2) In the script file OptimizeDaily.MyD, I changed "MyDefrag.log" to "!LogFile!"

It seemed to work just as I wanted it to.  Is this what you had in mind?

Jeff

Respectfully, I request that the -l <logfile> commandline option from JkDefrag be implemented in MyDefrag.  If -l <logfile> is specified on the commandline, have MyDefrag over-ride the logfile specified in the script file.  If no -l <logfile> is specified on the commandline, have MyDefrag use the logfile specified in the script file.

Regards,

Jeff