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Degragmentation wars
The subject of disk fragmentation will almost always draw heated arguments but seldom gets treated in its entirety. I'm going to try to do that here, but will probably miss a point or two: this is an extraordinarily complex subject and honestly there aren't any easy answers.
Why not differential backups? I get this question frequently. It's usually triggered either because the tape device can't hold an entire backup set or because the time required for backup interferes with productive work. Most of the time this can be easily remedied by a larger or faster storage device, but someone is bound to bring up the idea of differential backups.
Why defrag Windows XP Desktops? People argue about whether you need to bother with defragging Linux and Mac OS X drives. A very few people even bother to argue about defragmentation of Windows machines. It's just a given - the machine is slow, defrag it. Case closed.
Why not differential backups? I get this question frequently. It's usually triggered either because the tape device can't hold an entire backup set or because the time required for backup interferes with productive work. Most of the time this can be easily remedied by a larger or faster storage device, but someone is bound to bring up the idea of differential backups.
Why defrag Windows XP Desktops? People argue about whether you need to bother with defragging Linux and Mac OS X drives. A very few people even bother to argue about defragmentation of Windows machines. It's just a given - the machine is slow, defrag it. Case closed.
