major whoops. Just discovered our backup server backup drive volume is 80%! fragmented.
thats a 1.6tb volume 73% used 591,193 files in 60,919 folders
trying to de-fragment it but it's slow going. it managed 2% overnight
YIKES!
use a better defragger like diskkeeper.
don't bother, you'll spent days defragmenting, and one night of backup jobs later it'll be the same...and it really doesn't make restore/backup jobs, that take a lot of time anyway, much faster.
I presume you ran a checkdisk/scandisk first? Always important you do this!
Our backup exec box did this regularly, we found it to be to do with the size (we'd been using 50GB) disk back up files.
We defrag all our machines and servers daily to stop this. It doesn't take long at all when you keep ontop of it
Put some SSD's into it and then defrag won't matter
Last edited by DAckroyd; 6th November 2009 at 02:25 PM. Reason: missing a P
We have a scripted defrag here too, take a few seconds and keeps them relativly free from large fragments. Well worth setting up.
I wish this was cheap enough to be possible solution.Originally Posted by DAckroyd
Put some SSD's into it and then defrag won't matter
Agreed.
Other idea, MOVE TO LINUX!
With the speed of todays processors, hard drives and the busses does fragmentation really matter?
Ben
To steal a well known supermarket's slogan - "Every little helps"
I've just put SSDs in my Sims and Profile servers. Massive improvement but time will tell on the reliability.
160gb Intel X-25M are about £300 these days, well worth the investment I reckon.
For SIMS, yer £300 isn't bad. But for a backup server? Not yet.
i cottoned on to it when it took a suspiciously long time to install some windows updates. the c: drive was like 40% fragmented too :-S
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