Defrag

[Malluzzo]

I'm using Acronis version 10
When I perform a back up of c: to my external drive and I go into the
xp defrag program the back up copy on the external drive is compleaty
red,is this normal.Ghost 10 did the same thing.Should I defrag which
takes a long time or just leave it alone?

 

[mmaterie]

I'm using Acronis version 10
When I perform a back up of c: to my external drive and I go into the
xpdefragprogram the back up copy on the external drive is compleaty
red,is this normal.Ghost 10 did the same thing.Should Idefragwhich
takes a long time or just leave it alone?

If you plan to restore this file (and want the process to be as fast
as possible) or you store other files you access regularly on that
external drive that you access, defrag is a good idea. If this is just
an archival drive, it may not be worth the bother.

For the record, if the file is fragmented, that also means it took
longer to create it than it would have if it was not written in a
fragmented state. You can speed up the process by making sure the
target external disk has consolidated free space.

-Michael

 

[Cl.Massé]

I'm using Acronis version 10
When I perform a back up of c: to my external drive and I go into the
xp defrag program the back up copy on the external drive is compleaty
red,is this normal.Ghost 10 did the same thing.

That may happen if the drive isn't empty, if it has many bad sectors, or if
physically contiguous clusters aren't logically contiguous.

Should I defrag which
takes a long time or just leave it alone?

It is worthless to defrag it since it is intended to be rarely used, and
anyway it is perhaps already physically defragmented.

 

[Richard L Gabriel]

I'm using Acronis version 10
When I perform a back up of c: to my external drive and I go into the
xp defrag program the back up copy on the external drive is compleaty
red,is this normal.Ghost 10 did the same thing.Should I defrag which
takes a long time or just leave it alone?

I don't believe it is necessary or desirable to defrag the True Image
files. These have always been intrepreted as totally fragmented by
Defrag , however, they are exactly as they should be and have always
worked flawlessly for me.

 

[Rod Speed]

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If you plan to restore this file (and want the process to be as
fast as possible) or you store other files you access regularly
on that external drive that you access, defrag is a good idea.

Nope, because fragmentation of the archive has no relevance to the
restore time, essentially because there is so much head activity involved
in the restore that extra seeks with the archive wont even be noticed.

If this is just an archival drive, it may not be worth the bother.

It wont be worth it in any case.

For the record, if the file is fragmented, that also means it took longer
to create it than it would have if it was not written in a fragmented state.

Nope, its just due to the way those files are created. The time to create them
is totally determined by other factors, particularly compressing the data etc.
The extra head seeks are completely irrelevant with archiving essentially
because there are so many head seeks involved in the archiving of a drive anyway.

You can speed up the process by making sure the
target external disk has consolidated free space.

Wont actually make any difference, try it and see.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Utter nonsense.

I'm using Acronis version 10
When I perform a back up of c: to my external drive and I go into the
xp defrag program the back up copy on the external drive is compleaty
red,is this normal.Ghost 10 did the same thing.

That may happen if the drive isn't empty, if it has many bad sectors, or if
physically contiguous clusters aren't logically contiguous.

Should I defrag which takes a long time or just leave it alone?

It is worthless to defrag it since it is intended to be rarely used, and
anyway it is perhaps already physically defragmented.[/QUOTE]

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

I don't believe it is necessary or desirable to defrag the True Image files.
These have always been intrepreted as totally fragmented by Defrag ,

however, they are exactly as they should be

Of course they are.

and have always worked flawlessly for me.

As if fragmented files are corrupt and shouldn't 'work'.