Just curious, Al, where did you hear this from: > doing this. Online defrag can be a wonderful thing, and off-line is > typically recommended if online is not going to be able to finish > during it's run time.
Because I've never recommended that. online defrag actually saves off where it stopped, so it picks up on it's next run where it stopped last run, and thus can finish over multiple runs. Or were you calling a complete pass a run, and saying if it never finishes a complete pass? Cheers, BrettSh On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Yann wrote: > Hello Al, > > Good links u pointed to me, especially the link to automate the process > ..... > Thanks again for clarification on this subject. > > Yann > > Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ?crit : > > http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/5dd6f9eb-0533-4474-ac52-dca78c5471dd1033.mspx?mfr=true > > > > http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/975c456e-8b79-4ace-8363-82543236dbb31033.mspx?mfr=true > > > > http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/f/?en/Library/5b1d983d-ffab-4514-a95e-6aa0420dacb51033.mspx > > > Compacting is a local dit thing. You'll need to deal with it local > to each machine. IIRC, you can automate/semi-automate this and can > off-set it to not take out your entire forest at the same time. The > above links should help. > > I've just never seen a big reason to do this on an automated basis. > Even with similar amounts of DC's I didn't have enough of a reason to > do this. You may want to verify that there is much free space before > doing this. Online defrag can be a wonderful thing, and off-line is > typically recommended if online is not going to be able to finish > during it's run time. > > > > Al > > > On 6/27/06, Yann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, > > It may be a silly question, but when u perform a migration from winNT/w2k > to a w2k3 domain, do i have next to compact+defrag the ntds.dit on *EACH* > DC2k3 that have been migrated ? or may i do the operation on only one DC and > this DC will replicate the state (compact&defrag) on all other DCs ? > I have at least 60 DCs.... :( > I think the answer will be "compact & defrag each DC that have been > upgraded", but just to be 100 % sure. > > Thanks for answer. > > Yann > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail r?invente le mail ! D?couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son > interface r?volutionnaire. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail r?invente le mail ! D?couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son > interface r?volutionnaire. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
