Hi everyone,

I would like to ask if I need to run the defragment on a server running RAID
5 (hardware)?

If so, have anyone tried the 3rd party like Diskkeeper? Any comments?

Also, no matter what I used to defragment, would that mess up the Shadow
Copy on the data or the config on the server? I just read thru some posts
here so I ask this one.

Thank you very much in advance for your help!

Bobson

I use diskeeper om my RAID5 array with no problems.

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The latest versions of Diskeeper are VSS compatible according to their website:
http://tinyurl.com/ywuauz -- Aevin Posted via http://ms-os.com Forum to Usenet gateway

THank you for all your  response. But do you think if I really need to have
to program to maintain the disk fragment issue?

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Either that or you do a "monthly" maintenance and run chkdsk.

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Thank you SBS Rocker!

In fact, in my career life, I never defragment any file servers... Usually I
only did it on desktops...

How do I know when the disk needs defragment (rather than just run the tool
in the disk mgmt in Manage)?

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In message <uFp$8QGLIHA.2***@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> "SBS Rocker"
<nore***@NoDomain.com> wrote:

What does a chkdsk have to do with defragmenting?

Chkdsk checks for file system integrity before a defrag, so that the chance of messing up data during a defrag due to file system errors, is minimized. If a volume is not alright, then a defrag won't most likely run on it until it's been fixed. (chkdsk /f). It's a good idea to run chkdsk if you suspect something is wrong, or if you haven't run one in a long time.

Reg. when to defrag, you have to run the analysis from the built-in defragmenter, decide whether you need to defrag and schedule a defrag job for the relevant volumes, or run them manually.

For automatic defraggers, the analysis is automatically done in the background, and if necessary, defragmentation occurs, again automatically, when there are sufficient free system resources to do so i.e. usually when idling. Over the long term, this is a more efficient and effective solution compared to the manual/scheduled defrag IMHO. YMMV. -- Aevin Posted via http://ms-os.com Forum to Usenet gateway

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