: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.eduSubject: RE:
[Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation
Yes, file fragmentation does cause backups to perform
slowly, especially on drives housing databases or many small files.
However, we found here that the slowness caused by fragmentation was only 10
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KArl
Yes -
its a problem for most OS File / Application servers.
Obtaining a product will help and may improve backup performance too
:-)
Good
Luck
Simon
WeaverTechnical SupportWindows Domain Administrator
EADS
AstriumTel: 02392-708598
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: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 January 2006 20:11
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows File Fragmentation
Yes, file fragmentation does cause backups to
perform slowly,
especially on drives housing databases or many small
Yes. Though I would not have believed it at
this time. 12 Disk RAID set on SAN.
We noticed a large decrease in our backup window after
defragging our drives.
Andrew
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Yes, file fragmentation does cause backups to perform
slowly, especially on drives housing databases or many small files.
However, we found here that the slowness caused by fragmentation was only 10% of
our reason for slow backups and that 90% pertained to network
configuration. I guess
