Thanks for the input Len and William, it makes sense and I especially
like the idea of only defragging the data volume and not the system
volume, that would make me feel safer :-)
You know, this listserve group has saved my buttocks more than once
with timely and useful help and is by far the best.
Regards,
Jess
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> Hefner
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 1:49 PM
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> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Defragging a Server
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jess Coburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 6:34 AM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: Defragging a Server
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>
> > I assume I need to defrag my server on occassion the problem is
> > it's a colocated box and I administer it via pcAnywhere.
> > So I'm scared to death to do this.
>
> > Anyone try this?
>
> > Any suggestions on what to use?
>
> Well, I do not use PC Anywhere, but I have used VNC to defrag with great
> success for many months.
>
> I use Diskkeeper, which you can program to run at automatic intervals each
> day. That is probably the easiest way to do it. I have also run Diskkeeper
> manually on my servers from home using VNC to control it. There
> is not much
> of a problem, other than the fact that it will slow response time down on
> screen refreshes a bit. VNC seems to use about 5 megs of RAM while it is
> running, and Diskkeeper (or any defrag program) will take up some
> memory and
> slow down the hard drive as well, so I do not recommend running
> the programs
> at peak intervals, as you will slow eveything down (and the disk will not
> defrag as well, or as fast).
>
> FYI, I have this combo on two servers. One runs Imail. It has 64
> MB of RAM,
> a 4 MB IDE drive and a Pentium Pro 200 MMX as the CPU. It also hosts a
> couple of websites using IIS, and handles well over 1,000 e-mails per day,
> occasionally as many as 10,000. This combo has been running with
> no problems
> for well over six months now. I admin everything from home now, and only
> travel to the server site to do occasional physical server
> maintence. It has
> not crashed even once during that time.
>
> Hope this is of some help.
>
> William Van Hefner
> Sysadmin/Everything Else
> http://www.thedigest.com
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