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Does a drive defrag negatively affect deduplication?

Dakota Backup performs block-level deduplication on files. File system maintenance tasks do not affect files at the level in which Dakota Backup influences them. Disk defragmentation will not negatively affect deduplication in any way.
Dakota Backup performs block-level deduplication on files. File system maintenance tasks do not affect files at the level in which Dakota Backup influences them. Disk defragmentation will not negatively affect deduplication in any way.

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Does a drive defrag negatively affect deduplication?

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“...the Dakota Backup crew were local, easier to work with and extremely fast. Within an hour of asking for the data we needed – we were back on task.”

“...the Dakota Backup crew were local, easier to work with and extremely fast. Within an hour of asking for the data we needed – we were back on task.”

“...Before we had finished our trial period, we experienced the loss of some important data; we were able to restore the data in a fraction of the time a tape restore would have taken.”

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