defrag nt server?

[sierrapeac]

What is the best way to defrag a windows nt server? THanks.

 

[Kjonnnn]

Diskkeeper Lite.

 

[sierrapeac]

Thanks. The server is about 3 years old and we have never defragged it before. Could this be a problem??

 

[djhawthorn]

It shouldn't be a problem. Just let Diskkeeper run and don't have a power failure while it's defragging . MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[ssay]

I use Norton Speed Disk, which allows me to schedual a defrag on certain time of the day when the server is not doing much. This way it does not slow the server down...it may take a week on 500 GB, but the users don't complain.

 

[evonne]

I have heard that its not a good idea to defrag an NT server from a few NT MCSE other say do it - has anyone experienced any probs?

 

[devastator]

I haven't had any problems. I just make sure that when I run it all shares are closed meaning nobody has any shares open on the server.

I run diskkeeper v6.0 for my NT server and v7.0 on the Win2000 servers. I usually only run it once perhaps twice a month after hours. Haven't had any problems myself.



Dev

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi devastator,

Is diskkeeper v6.0 able to defrag a Nt Server 4.0 Sp6 that is using a RAID 5 disk configuration environment? If it isn't, somebody knows about any other program that can do it? Thanks a lot.

 

[devastator]

Yes it can. I have 3 18.2gb hard drives in a hardware RAID 5 and it defrags just fine. It takes time, but it works.

Like I said though, I just make sure everyone is logged out of all shares from the server.


Dev

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for your reply devastator,I'll try to use it.

 

[devastator]

I also reboot the servers when defragmenting is finished. No rhyme or reason that is just me.


Dev

 

[devastator]

Also you might want to try using a page defrag and contig defrag....

sysinternals has these free utilities..........

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml

 

[Mturner]

keep defraging untill there is something like 3 fragmented files or less and these will be the page files. you should notice a diffrence. i got a quote from execsoft the people who make diskkeper lite for a full version for all of my 280 servers. they dont do a version for novell so they only quoted me for my 26 windows servers and it came to , wait for it £6.903.50. so i gave that a miss.

HTH

Marc Turner