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  1. WOAH Poll inception! You can do that? Or I guess only the beta can do that? Interesting might try that.
  2. I guess I didn't explain myself well. All my folders are set to be duplicated on two drives (duplication set to 1). What I'm trying to prevent is data getting stored on one of the low confidence drives and duplicated on the other one. IE, at least one copy of all data reside on the 6 high confidence drives so if both low confidence drives fail at the same time nothing is lost. I understand I could set all folder to duplicate to 3 drives, but that comes at the cost of eating up space. Trying to see if there's a more efficient way to balance the duplication.
  3. I have a newbie question that I'm failing to find through search. I have 8 drives in my pool. 2 of which I have low confidence in remaining lifetime. The other 6 I have high confidence in. Other than setting my redundant folders to "store on " 3 drives instead of 2, is there a way to set the balancer to only store redundant data on my 2 low confidence drives? And not redundant data for each other. IE, use the 2 drives to only store redundant data from the other 6 drives and not from each other?
  4. Yeah yeah. You've helped me on two scanner issues through tickets the past week. (It not running on my HTPC because of corrupt WMI and it going crazy with a SMART failure on/off every minute on the server running drivepool) so I get the idea. I was going to just buy scanner and use snapraid till i realized snapraid was just data parity and not really drive pooling. Then I figured I'd give your pooling solution a try. Gonna need to buy a copy of drive pool and at least 2 copies of scanner for both PCs that have RAID or pooling. Might add on two more copies for may main clients, not sure yet. Have to figure out the best way to 'bundle' all that because I see the price of scanner goes down the more copies you buy. Feedback from a geek: I read that when drivepool and scanner are both installed, a drive detected as failing will automatically be set to migrate data off in the pool. But I can't find any visual confirmation in DrivePool that it acknowledges Scanner is installed and that will happen. Either I'm blind (possible) or it's not in the GUI. A real big checkmark somewhere in Drivepool that it sees scanner is installed and explains how drives will be removed if detected as bad might be nice. I like my GUI confirmations I guess, else I'd probably be running a linux file server. Ok, I see it listed as a Balancer in the list of priority. Does that mean it has linked up with scanner? Or would that show either way?
  5. Well, from the outside looking in I did not think of this, nor would have probably done it anyway as you are talking about my precious, 15 years worth of saved data, and (no offense) Drivepool is still un-trusted (to me) software. There was just something more warm-blanket-feeling about watching the manual transfer. I'm also taking the RAID 5 offline for a few months with the old data set to have as a hot backup as I get more comfortable with drivepool, so i wouldn't wanted to have moved it off. Afterwords I'll dismantle the array and bring the disks into the pool as 'fresh' disks. Thanks for explaining windows to me, that explains the behavior I saw. Before my 30 days is up and I have to give you money, quick unrelated question. Would Clouddrive be a good replacement for cloudberry backup? I have cloudberry push file changes to Amazon glacier every night, encrypted of course. From what I read on Clouddrive, it's more a live folder of your cloud storage type app, and not a backup your data to cloud app. Is this correct?
  6. Interestingly, robocopy was able to move over all files, and it appears i have some filenames too long to be opened, moved or edited on the fileserver itself, but I can open and edit them fine through another computer through fileshare. Windows is weird.
  7. Hi there. New user evaluating DrivePool to replace my cheap and aging RAID5 enclosure attached to a WHS2011. I simply used drag and drop to move some of my shared folders from "H:\ServerFolders\" to "K:\Shared Folders\" and got a few errors about not being able to copy due to file path name being too long. After clicking skip and letting it finish I noticed about 300GB had failed to copy out of 1.5TB. Now I doubt chances are I was living at the extreme end of the file path limit with 300GB of data and that single character extra put me over, so I had a question: 1) How does drivepool handle saving long (but not over windows limit) file structures to the virtualpool drive when it then has to go append "PoolPart.ef564dc2-9e4d-4302-91bb-3bb3cef750cc5" at the beginning when saving the structure to a real drive and then being too long for windows to save? I'm now trying to move the data with this robocopy command :robocopy "H:\ServerFolders" "K:\Shared Folders" /MIR /ZB /SEC /R:10 /W:10 /V /TEE /LOG:xcopy.txt and so far i haven't seen any errors flash by, but would it be better to migrate using that command over gui drag and drop? Bill
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