Michael D. Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 (edited) We are going to be pausing the backup process for all servers after the backup process finishes tonight to run a full defragmentation on the backups. This will increase the speed at which backups happen as well as increase the speed at which restorations can be completed. This may not seem like a major issue for individual files or accounts, but should we need to run a full server bare metal restore (due to say, major hardware failure) this defragmentation process can speed the restoration up by as much as 60%. If you have any questions at all, feel free to get in touch. We do always suggest you keep your own regular backups downloaded just in case no matter whether our backup system is operating nominally or not. Edited September 7, 2012 by Scott S Completed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 To clarify: The backups for Monday night / Tuesday morning are being run, but all backups will be paused on all servers after this, until further notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 The defrag process is now running on the backup server. Backups for all servers are suspended. Please follow this thread for further updates as we will post a notice when backups are enabled once again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 The defragmentation process on the backup server is still running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 The backup server is still defragmenting. It has made a lot of progress, but isn't finished yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 The defragmentation process for our backup server is now complete. Backups on all servers will resume their normal schedule tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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