Problem Scheduled Defrag on Domain

Discussion in 'Software' started by timebomb, Oct 11, 2012.

  1. timebomb

    timebomb New Member

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    Hey all,

    I'm looking at implementing a scheduled defrag across a range of computers on a domain, setting up a scheduled task using defrag.exe seems to be the best way to organise this but I am having trouble making it work.

    Here is the command I've been using, I find that the task is created but when I go to run it it does not actually take place. I'm sure I had it working before so there is probably some niggling error somewhere.

    schtasks /create /tn "Defrag000" /sc monthly /mo 1 /d 1 /st 21:30:00 /s \\%computername% /u administrator /p SecurePW /ru system /tr "c:\windows\system32\defrag.exe c:\ -v >> c:\defrag\r_%computername%.log"

    Does anyone have any ideas as to why this isn't working or can they suggest another option perhaps?

    Thanks

    Allan
     
  2. dales

    dales Terabyte Poster

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    What is the error code that the scheduled task is generating, if its not added to the scheduled tasks list you might get something if you pipe the command through to a text file so something like "full command >> c:\output.txt"
     
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  3. timebomb

    timebomb New Member

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    After deconstructing it somewhat the scheduled task runs successfully if I remove the command to output to the log file. While its not essential it would be nice to have a log file available on the computer itself.

    schtasks /create /tn "Defrag100" /sc monthly /mo 1 /d 1 /st 21:30:00 /ru system /tr "defrag.exe c:\"
     
  4. SimonD
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    Silly question but have you looked at Raxco for defrag software? it's not too expensive and has all the reporting and management you would want.
     
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  5. BigG

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    If the machines are windows 7 then they auto defrag at 3am (I think).
    You can probably change this with group policy if required

    G
     
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  6. timebomb

    timebomb New Member

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    We're looking for it to be free ideally, I'm aware Windows Server 2008 enables more around implementing defrag across the domain so a scheduled task will have to do until we move to 2008.

    All machines are XP as well so we are quite limited!

    I got it working anyway using the following command, it seems to be the outputting of the log file which was causing the problem:

    schtasks /create /tn "DefragFO" /sc monthly /mo FIRST /d SUN /st 21:30:00 /ru system /tr "defrag.exe c:\"
     

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