x360Recover - Agent Best Practices

Please execute these practices on all agent machines prior to their initial backup with x360Recover .

1) <10% fragmentation for each volume.

Recommend Defraggler or UltraDefrag, not Windows built-in due to the fact that they defragment on the block level, not the file level.

    http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html?download 

    https://defraggler.en.softonic.com/download

2) Command Prompt: sfc /scannow 

Fix any issues you find.

3) Allocate 10% of HDD capacity to VSS (Shadow Copies) functions for each volume.

4) Command Prompt: “vssadmin list providers” and “vssadmin list writers”.

For Providers - Only Microsoft providers are permitted on this list. Please remove any other non-Microsoft VSS Providers you find.

For Writers – Ensure each writer listed reads “No Errors”.