Re: temporarily disable Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)?

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thanks for that. according to Diskeeper docs, it can't consolidate folders
and files if running on VSS drive with clusters smaller then 16k. the native
defrag doesn't do any folder/ file consolidation, it only defrags fragmented
files.

"Twayne" wrote:

Dabbler wrote:
I'm running Vista Ultimate. Since I take a full image backup every
night with Acronis TrueImage I would like to disable VSS in order to
perform directory and file consolidation defrag once in a while.
Diskeeper won't do this on volumes that have VSS with cluster sizes
less than 16k and my clusters are the default 4k size. Is there a way
to disable VSS and then re-anable it after I run my defrag?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Really? VSS is nothing but a service, so it can be stopped, started
etc. manually.

I can't imagine why VSS would bother defrag, but ... if so, I think I'd
check the native defrag and see if it has that limitation. It just
sounds strange to me.
Twayne



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