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Defrag / NSB

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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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Hello John,

Thank you for posting. I will definitely assist you.

You can do defragmentation with Acronis Nonstop Backup turned off. After defragmentation is complete you can resume your NSB. Please check this article for more information and if you have additional questions about it please let me know.

Thank you.

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?

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.

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?

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.