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A recent survey of system administrators who had upgraded from Executive Software
free Diskeeper Lite freeware to the full version of Diskeeper 3.0 uncovered the
main enticement of buying the full version product: "Set It and
Forget It". While this may come as no surprise3/4system administrators
are far too busy to have to remember to defragment, especially with
multiple partitions on multiple machines3/4it points out what really is
important to administrators once the product's purpose and functionality
has been proven.
Numerous customers have also written to Executive Software about this specific feature.
Scott Morris of MediaOne in Tempe, Arizona said, "I love the fact that I can
set it and let it run at night while I am sleeping and my machine is
running so much more consistent."
"Set it and forget it is one of the best and most accurate advertising
phrases I have heard," said John Kelly of New Horizons CLC. "After
setting it to run every 4 hours or so for a week, even the users said
that the server seemed to be more responsive."
Gerald Atkinson of Digital Sound Corporation told us, "I like the Set It
and Forget It capability of Diskeeper 3.0. I don't have to worry about
manually running Diskeeper to keep my system operating at its maximum
performance."
How does this popular feature work?
The original idea was imported from our Diskeeper version for Digital's
OpenVMS operating system. Not only was Diskeeper the first on-line
defragmenter for OpenVMS (as it was for NT), it was also the first to
offer "Set It and Forget It" functionality. Once scheduled, Diskeeper
would defragment unsupervised from there on out. This stemmed from the
original design goals for Diskeeper, as stated by Craig Jensen,
Diskeeper's original designer: "Regardless of how much a defragmenter
increases system performance, the System Manager has no need or desire
for the added problem of figuring out how to run the defragmenter and
taking time to baby-sit it. Accordingly, one of the primary design
goals of Diskeeper was for it to do its job with little or no
intervention by a human operator."
Diskeeper for Windows NT carries this same goal forward by offering a
number of options for scheduled defragmentation, making it easy to
defragment a single workstation or a complex, thousand-plus-machine
network. You can specify the interval (how often to run), on which
days (including options for "everyday", "weekdays", and "weekends")
and
beginning and ending times. Since most Windows NT disks are
partitioned, Diskeeper will allow you to set different schedules for
different partitions, or defragment several partitions under a single
schedule. Multiple defragmentation jobs can be run at the same time on
separate partitions.
By default, "Set It and Forget It" defragmentation operates at "Lowest"
Windows NT priority, so as to have a minimal impact on other tasks
running at the same time. As an option, you can change the run priority
if you like.
For networks, using Diskeeper server version, you can set up such
schedules for each partition on every remote computer attached to the
network - right from your system console. You can even schedule groups
of computers at once. (Note: remote computers must be licensed with
Diskeeper Workstation version).
Once Diskeeper is scheduled, you can forget about it. It will
defragment all partitions at their scheduled times, operating in the
background, whether or not you are logged into those machines.
If you haven't purchased the full version of Diskeeper, do yourself the
favor of doing so now. Discover just how much relief "Set It and Forget
It" can be. No longer will you have to remember to defragment, and no
longer will you have to manually operate a defragmenter every time, on
each machine.
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