MEGAnation Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 I am running a Hyper-V VM backup to a USB HDD drive for testing on a cleanly formatted disk. After running 1 backup of 3 VM's (about 100GB) Windows is reporting that the drive is 97% fragmented. Is this normal/expected? Should we be defragging often? USB HDD Repository is set at Best compression with store as separate files disabled. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Official Moderator Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 10 hours ago, Official Moderator said: Hello, @MEGAnation, thank you for your request, I will consult with the Support Team and soon will return with an answer. 17 hours ago, MEGAnation said: I am running a Hyper-V VM backup to a USB HDD drive for testing on a cleanly formatted disk. After running 1 backup of 3 VM's (about 100GB) Windows is reporting that the drive is 97% fragmented. Is this normal/expected? Should we be defragging often? USB HDD Repository is set at Best compression with store as separate files disabled. Thanks! Hello, MEGAnation, thank you for your post. Please send us a new support bundle with a database included Specify the Job Name, Repository Name, and ticket number #145192 for further checking. We look forward to hearing any feedback from you soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Official Moderator Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 On 5/15/2022 at 4:58 PM, MEGAnation said: I am running a Hyper-V VM backup to a USB HDD drive for testing on a cleanly formatted disk. After running 1 backup of 3 VM's (about 100GB) Windows is reporting that the drive is 97% fragmented. Is this normal/expected? Should we be defragging often? USB HDD Repository is set at Best compression with store as separate files disabled. Thanks! @MEGAnationThank you for your patience during the investigation. The enabled deduplication caused to use of the chunk-based repo. Yes, it's possible/expected. If the you want, you can defragment your drive, but this is not required. Should you need any further information, please let us know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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