defragmentation.jpg There are increased efforts of data backup software vendors who continue to make advancements to cut down the time required for data backup. The exponential organizational storage allocation requirements, is posing a challenge in this front. Testing has revealed that the time required to backup data from hard drive volume to backup devides can be decreased and the backup data transfer rate can be increased by defrag-job, prior to backup. The study conducted to determine the effects of fragmentation on backup operations and benefits of defragmentation by Diskeeper Corporation revealed that; in addition to defragmenting this test case, consolidating directories had a further benefit on backup performance. Backup times for ARCServe were improved by an additional 3% for the local disk backup, and an additional 41% for the network disk backup.

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