Photo File backup location

I understand that Lightroom catalog backup saves only the metadata refering to changes etc. that have been made to photos.  My question refers to the backup of the photo files themselves.  If I do a Windows Defrag for instance, the photos will probably be moves in that process to a different location on my hard drive.  Can Lightroom still find thesse photo files once they are moved?  Or, if I restore photo files from an external drive to my internal hard drive which will probably locate them on different locations than they were originally, how does Lightroom associate the Catalog metadata with these newly relocated files?
Thanks
Georgekibler

A Windows Defragmentation will not move the files to a different location; at least not in the sense that they would have a different address after defragmentation.
So Lr will have no problem with your image files if you defrag your hard drive.
Restoring a drive could have implications for Lr. In the following I will assume that you mean restoring in the sense that you use a Windows Restore Point to reset the drive to an earlier point in time.
If you have renamed or moved photos in Lr within the period between the present and the time when the Restore Point that you want to use was set, you would change the drive back to the earlier time but the Lr catalog would not be changed - if it is on a different drive. You would then get the "missing file" warning and the question mark, and you had to  relink your photos.
If the catalog is on the drive that is being restored, everything would be reset to the earlier point in time. But I have to say that I never did a Restore for a Lr catalog, so can't say for sure what Restore does to a Lr catalog.
For the catalog I would prefer and recommend to use the backup feature in Lr. And, if I wanted to go back in time I'd just load an earlier catalog.

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