Fully Automatic Defrag Reduces That Crucial Backup Window

BURBANK, CA--(Marketwire - July 1, 2009) - There are professions in which specific time windows are very important. Astronomy is one of those; you miss certain time windows, and they may be gone for a lifetime or more. Ask any astronomer about Halley's Comet, that famous astral body that is only visible every 75 years. It last appeared in 1986, and will once again show its brilliance in 2061. To not have the telescope aimed correctly at the exact right time means a seriously missed opportunity, and there is no making up for it.

Computer system backups are a far more down-to-earth example of time windows that can't be missed, but they are an example nonetheless. Because computer systems today are nearly always up and running, there are usually a specified number of hours in which a backup can be performed. If that backup fails or it is considerably slowed, there is one of two choices: to delay or slow access to vital systems while the backup completes, or to put aside the backup completely until the next opportunity. Neither choice is good, but the first is likely preferable; corporate data is far too valuable to put in jeopardy by not backing it up.

One serious detriment to backups is file fragmentation. It's really a simple math equation; if a file is fragmented into many pieces, the backup program must access every fragment in order to back up that file. Periodic or scheduled defragmentation is little better than none at all, for in between defrag runs fragmentation continues to build and backups will still be considerably slowed.

The only real key to high-performance backups is the Diskeeper® defrag solution -- with which disks and files are constantly maintained in a fragmentation-free state.

"The greatest benefit we've seen from Diskeeper is the speeding up of our data backups on our SAN," said Jim McGuire, Information Technology, BPA Worldwide. "One of our volumes is 800GB. It took up to 72 hours to backup that volume. After running Diskeeper for a month we started to see tangible results. We are now down to 47 hours. 72 hours is a very long time. By getting it down to 47 hours we now have a maintenance window on the weekend again."

"It used to take us 25 hours to perform our weekly backup of the Domino Servers," said Jimmy Beltran, Lotus Notes Administrator with SandvikSIT Americas. "By using Diskeeper, we were able to reduce our backup time down to 9 hours. By enabling the automatic defragmentation feature, we increased the performance of the drive array on live production systems with no user impact other than an increase in performance."

Diskeeper Corporation's InvisiTasking® technology allows defrag to occur using only otherwise-idle resources. There is never a need for scheduling, and there is never a negative performance impact on users.

Diskeeper in your enterprise means you don't miss that vital backup time window ever again.