{"id":1377,"date":"2012-07-17T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T01:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2012-07-17T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T01:26:18","slug":"disabling-windows-defrag-scheduled-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Disabling Windows defrag scheduled task"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows Server 2008 and 7 have an automatic defrag task that runs weekly.<\/p>\n

Since this rearranges blocks around on the disk, this can cause image-based backups to be much larger than is necessary.<\/p>\n

We recommend disabling the task for production environments:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click Start, then open control panel:
    \n\"\"<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Under control panel, open “Administrative Tools”<\/li>\n
  3. Then open “Task Scheduler”<\/li>\n
  4. In the Task scheduler, expand out the scheduled tasks under “Task scheduler library”->”Microsoft”->”Windows”->”Defrag”<\/li>\n
  5. Right click on the “ScheduledDefrag” task and choose “Disable”
    \n    \"\"<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n
  6. This will prevent Windows from automatically running the defrag task and needlessly increasing the size of the backup incrementals<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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