Hello my fellow professionals, my boss has finally agreed with me to start defragging the server. Could you give the best tips and programs I should use for this job? The only thing is that this server has not been defragged for 3 1/2 years now please your comments and help would be greatly appreciated.
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Server has not been defragged for 3 years HELP!!!!
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Serbtastic
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You may want to consider backing up the data from that machine, formatting it, and reinstalling everything. It may take the same (or less) amount of time.
why do you think it needs defragging?
as you'll know, NT doesn't come with built in defrag app - because MS didn't think it would need one. While many disagree with this, I've noticed ntfs installations of NT run quite happily without ever being defragged.
So just wondered if you have specific reasons for this - or just think that after 3 1/2 years it should be done!
as you'll know, NT doesn't come with built in defrag app - because MS didn't think it would need one. While many disagree with this, I've noticed ntfs installations of NT run quite happily without ever being defragged.
So just wondered if you have specific reasons for this - or just think that after 3 1/2 years it should be done!
bofhrevenge2
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I agree, non of our NT4 server HD's ever needed defragmenting. 2003 and XP are different and certain services cause file fragmentation and this is why a MS defragmenter program comes with these OS's.
we didnt defrag our fileservers for 10 years. we upgraded to win2k server the other day. they are soooo fragmented it's untrue. Gonna take days to defrag and they're only 35gb scsi drives. After the upgrade we have seriously fragmented swap files. gonna have to sort that out.
However we've never had a problem cos it of athough I wonder if they may have been faster if we had of done so.
if you want to do it you need diskeeper the server version. it's not cheap but you can schedule it to run at night with smart defrag ie run if fragmentation reaches a certain level and other neat stuff.
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However we've never had a problem cos it of athough I wonder if they may have been faster if we had of done so.
if you want to do it you need diskeeper the server version. it's not cheap but you can schedule it to run at night with smart defrag ie run if fragmentation reaches a certain level and other neat stuff.
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Tuppence hal'penny here. DiskKeeper is the one MS use in Win2K & Win2K3. Works fine.
In an NT 4 environment I would back up the data, format the drives and restore form tape tho' much quicker than trying to run a defrag that probably will nedd about a zillion runs through.
"but its my boot disk" Shouldn't have anything in there any way. You could move the data to another drive.
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In an NT 4 environment I would back up the data, format the drives and restore form tape tho' much quicker than trying to run a defrag that probably will nedd about a zillion runs through.
"but its my boot disk" Shouldn't have anything in there any way. You could move the data to another drive.
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Cheers
Scott
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