Defrag / NSB
I was reading the post at http://forum.acronis.com/forum/4519 and was thinking...
the issue is not that defrag and NSB run when the other isn't... it's that after a defrag, NSB is going to do a complete new backup since the sectors would have changed.
Am I mis-understanding, or is the only workaround truly to never run a defrag?

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Thank you so much Anton....
and so I have the same question for you regarding normal backups... are they run on the sector level as well?
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Yes, regular disk and partition backups run on the sector level as well. File backups don't. But file backups cannot get your system back alone.
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Thanks (again) Pat.
OK - so that being said, since the backups run on the sector level, if I were to run defrag, I am looking at the possibility of a much larger and longer backup time since that will affect sectors. So the best thing seems to be is to disable defrag on my machine, correct?
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Many users run backups as a full backup, then incremental backups or differential backups, then a full. You just need to schedule your defragmentation before a full backup is due. If you use Windows task scheduler to schedule your ATI backups, you can control the synchronization of the 2 pieces of software. If you use the built in Acronis scheduler, that will be harder, since you cannot specify when the full happens.
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I didn't even think of this -- thanks so much Pat...
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