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Stop SQL Server service(s) before defragmenting drive?

Our production SQL Server 2005 database's data files live on a separate physical drive, which Microsoft Windows 2003's Disk Defragmenter tool reports as 99% fragmented. We scheduled a task to ...
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SQL Server 2012 database backup successfully report but no backup file

I have created maintenance plan in SQL Server 2012. And every day, the maintenance plan should backup the database. There is no database backup file when I look in the folder where the backups must ...