| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 100293 | 2009-06-02 21:16:00 | cloning & defrag | NZHawk (4093) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 779150 | 2009-06-02 21:16:00 | Is it beneficial to defrag a hard drive before cloning it? | NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 779151 | 2009-06-02 22:00:00 | No really, unless you're doing a image excluding free space, where defragging it should make the image smaller. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 779152 | 2009-06-03 06:44:00 | Thanks NZHawk Now that you have clear and concise reply from a respected member - Jen won't mind me adding a different but related question :D ;) When you have a full image of the drive, then defrag, is it still safe to carry out a differential update, or might that not be dependable ? :confused: I have a memory trace that I read somewhere that if you do a defrag you should do a fresh image altogether ? Misty :) |
Misty (368) | ||
| 779153 | 2009-06-03 06:59:00 | That could depend on the method of archiving the image program uses for differential update and may double the size of the image as disk block information is different.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 779154 | 2009-06-03 08:08:00 | That could depend on the method of archiving the image program uses for differential update and may double the size of the image as disk block information is different.... Hi SolMiester Thanks -- perhaps I should have specified - the method is Acronis True Image 9. Misty |
Misty (368) | ||
| 779155 | 2009-06-03 08:18:00 | Well Misty I use Acronis for my backups had an image and a diff backup several defrags in between them and when I had to re image last weekend they both went in fine so should be ok as it worked for me. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 779156 | 2009-06-03 09:16:00 | Well Misty I use Acronis for my backups had an image and a diff backup several defrags in between them and when I had to re image last weekend they both went in fine so should be ok as it worked for me. Sounds good to me ! Reassuring Thanks Gary Misty :) |
Misty (368) | ||
| 1 | |||||