Stupid Defrag Question

If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto a new
one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

Keith Wilby wrote:
If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto a new
one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

Yes

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"Ed Light" wrote in message
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Keith Wilby wrote:
If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto a new
one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

Yes


Thanks Ed. So it's defrag then image by the sound of it.

Keith Wilby wrote:
If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto a new
one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

Depends on your imager. Typically yes.
And you should backup before defragging.

Arno

"Arno" wrote in message
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Keith Wilby wrote:
If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto a new
one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

Depends on your imager. Typically yes.
And you should backup before defragging.

Arno

Thanks Arno. Are you saying take the backup image first and live with the
fragmentation? Or backup, defrag then backup again? I'm using Acronis True
Image if that's relevant.

On 6-Apr-2009, Arno wrote:

If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto a new
one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

Which backup utility? They use different algorithms, frequently get
the version updated, some add compression as an option.

True Image works fine for me, it seems to make no difference if you
defrag before backup, on restore the restored image is fragmented.
Perfect Disk fixes that. It's True Image for the System Drive C:\.
I use FilebackPC for the data drive as it is incremental and quick.
I can see, open, and use the backed up files the same as the
originals. Again a full restore needs a Perfect Disk defrag.
Fragmentation is a fact of life, you can't avoid it if you use
MScrap, just buy a defragmenter that offers smart placement
as an option, with a flexible scheduler, so it runs when the
PC is not in use, like lunchtimes.
Flexible scheduling offers every X days, 1 = daily, 7 =weekly,
etc, Weekends only, Weekdays onlt, at start Time.
Then just forget it, it runs to schedule.
Backups are no good if you can't restore them, don't
wait until a crisis to test restore, and if the PC won't boot
you need a restore disk, such as bootable optical media,
True Image and similar utilities let you prepare one.

Keith Wilby wrote
Ed Light wrote
Keith Wilby wrote

If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto
a new one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

Yes

Thanks Ed. So it's defrag then image by the sound of it.

Nope, no point in defragging before imaging with True Image.

Keith Wilby wrote:

Thanks Ed. So it's defrag then image by the sound of it.

Yes, though you can always defrag after restoring.

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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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Nope, no point in defragging before imaging with True Image.


True Image takes care of that?

Keith Wilby wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Keith Wilby wrote
Ed Light wrote
Keith Wilby wrote

If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto
a new one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

Yes

Thanks Ed. So it's defrag then image by the sound of it.

Nope, no point in defragging before imaging with True Image.

True Image takes care of that?

Nope, it makes no difference to the speed of the image creation and its
pointless defragging modern drives except in the most unusual situations.