Defragmentation on the Domino server

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Subject: Defragmentation on the Domino server

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Domino Server

Technical Area: Administration

Platform: Windows 2003 server

Release: 8.0.1

Reproducible: Not applicable

Does anyone have any experiences of defragging databases on the Domino server. I have two mail servers on which the backups take twice as long as the others and now believe this is down to fragmentation. While volume level fragmentaton is the same on these as other servers the average fragments per file (as reported by contig.exe) is way higher.

On a test server I have defragged individual databases using contig.exe with Domino up and running and saw no problems - even names.nsf while I was intentionally using it from a Notes client.

However I'd be nervous about doing this on a live server so thought I'd ask on here.

I have read about the two products defrag.nsf (http://www.preemptive.com.au/defrag ) and the free DominoDefrag on openntf (which actually seems to use contig.exe anyway) and both of these purport to work with Domino up.

All though/experiences appreciated.

Feedback number WEBB95BEZ6 created by ~Gus Loplubergoopsi on 02/27/2013