temporarily disable Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)?

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Dabbler

I'm running Vista Ultimate. Since I take a full image backup every night with
Acronis TrueImage I would like to disable VSS in order to perform directory
and file consolidation defrag once in a while. Diskeeper won't do this on
volumes that have VSS with cluster sizes less than 16k and my clusters are
the default 4k size. Is there a way to disable VSS and then re-anable it
after I run my defrag?

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
Dabbler said:
I'm running Vista Ultimate. Since I take a full image backup every
night with Acronis TrueImage I would like to disable VSS in order to
perform directory and file consolidation defrag once in a while.
Diskeeper won't do this on volumes that have VSS with cluster sizes
less than 16k and my clusters are the default 4k size. Is there a way
to disable VSS and then re-anable it after I run my defrag?

Thanks for any suggestions.
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Really? VSS is nothing but a service, so it can be stopped, started
etc. manually.

I can't imagine why VSS would bother defrag, but ... if so, I think I'd
check the native defrag and see if it has that limitation. It just
sounds strange to me.
Twayne
 
thanks for that. according to Diskeeper docs, it can't consolidate folders
and files if running on VSS drive with clusters smaller then 16k. the native
defrag doesn't do any folder/ file consolidation, it only defrags fragmented
files.
 
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