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Hey guys, Drivepool has served me well for over 10 years. Unfortunately, I'm moving over to Unraid. Nothing to do with Drivepool itself; it works fantastic. I just can't get Snapraid to work in conjunction with it, and I need that extra layer of backup. So my question is, I do need to evacuate off of the Drivepool one drive at a time, and I don't have enough room to empty a drive, remove it, and then go to the next drive. I was wondering if it was possible to move files directly off of a particular drive's poolpart folder instead? Will it cause Drivepool to freak out in any way?

Martixingwei is correct, you would need to download that entire clouddrive folder from your google drive to local storage and run the converter tool.

I believe currently the only way is to download everything to local and use the converter tool come with CloudDrive to convert it to other mountable format.

Let's say.....Google does change something with the API and my Google Drive is no longer mountable using the StableBit Application(s), is there a way to decrypt the Chunk of Data files in the actual Google Drive folder "Stablebit Cloud Drive" if I use a different program like rclone or Google Drive Desktop for Windows?

Oh, hrrmmm, interesting. It looks like FreeFileSync did the job, but its UI looks like it was done by a madman, so I might try Robocopy next time. That fileclasses link is EXTREMELY helpful. A bit more on the pool reconstruction front. I really needed more than six drive bays to work with, so I bloodied a credit card and bought another Terra. FFS mirrored everything on the old pool to the three new Seagates seemingly fine. Oh, but before that, the Seagates long formatted successfully, so I'm considering them good to go. I'm currently long formatting three of the old pool drives, which'll take another 24 hours. Once that's done, I'll fire-up the second Terra with old pool drives and copy everything over from them to the drives that I'm in the process of long formatting (presuming they pass). Gillware has the drive. I stressed to my contact that the drive should be fine electronically and mechanically, so they shouldn't have to take it apart. I'm HOPING this will lower the cost of the recovery substantially. You would think restoring everything from a simple diskpart clean should be a cakewalk for a professional recovery service, but we'll see. Incidentally, I was looking over Terramaster's line of products and they are all-in on NAS devices, with their flagship product supporting 24 drives. I wish they would offer a 10- or even 8-bay DAS box, but then you're back to needing a beefy PSU. I still intend to take apart the Sabrent assuming it's not a nightmare to do so. That's currently all the news that's fit to print. More to come!

Wonderful, thanx Drashna, and yes, I've learned and already have locations/IDs in the volume names 😄.

For the mount points, at any time that the drives are connected to the new system. Personally, I would recommend changing the volume labels for the drives to match their locations/IDs, so that it's easier to identify the drives. Also, if you're using StableBit Cloud, it should sync the settings for the pool in StableBit DrivePool, and should sync the scan history and settings for StableBit Scanner, on the new system.

So piggy-backing on the original request, I'd like to do the something very similar, but there's an added complication. On my existing system I have a Pool consisting of 10 drives each of which is mounted in a folder on the C drive. I'm comfortable with Shane's method above, but unsure where in the procedure I should handle the creation of mount points on the new system. Any ideas Shane?? Thanx in advance.

Thanks for the info Drashna; I've added it to all my DrivePool PC's & will advise the outcome in due course.

Robocopy already skips existing files (if they have matching time and size) by default; this can be overriden via the /IS (include files with same size, last-modified time and attributes) and /IT (include files with same size and last-modified time but different attributes) switches. See https://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html#fileclasses for more details.

If this was the case, then it may be that the "SYSTEM" account permissions were changed or corrupted. This accound should have full control on the pool. This is the account that the service runs in, and uses for accessing the pool for balancing, duplication and drive removal. The "forced damage drive removal" option should skip problem files and continue with the removal, though.

For reference, you can manually merge pools, if needed. https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_F1655

It might be worth running this on both systems: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q7420208

the pool does support adding multiple drive letters to a single disk (well, really, it's windows thing, and is supported). As for the delete/undo, the pool does support the recycle bin, but that depends on the specific settings you have configured.

Okay, my way was gonna be a real PITA, so I'm doing it via the two-pool method. Unfortunately, I don't have enough (current) drivespace to enable duplication, as I'd have to get a second Terra and also stuff it with drives. Maybe in a few months I can buy some more hardware. I was copying over the pool data and it got interrupted in the last few hours. I poured over Robocopy to see how to get it to just copy the files that don't exist on the target pool, but I cannot for the life of me get the switches straight. Can you give me some pointers? Or is there a better 3rd-party copy app I should be using (treecomp?)? nvm, I stumbled across an open-source app called freefilesync that seems to be up to the task. Still, I'd like to know how to do this with something like Robocopy, though. BTW, Gillware said they could look at the drive, but the recovery cost was probably gonna be steep. Ugh.

Hi, I am in a very similar situation so it seemed a good idea to revive this post instead of creating a new one. Since Drive Bender development has stopped, and my Drivebender installation started misbehaving after recent windows updates, I am trying out Drivepool. I have been using Drivebender for a long time with 3 mount points to the pool , and I have somewhat painted myself in a corner doing so it seems. My pool consists of 6 drives and have E: , F: and G: mounts. Many, many files I have created for my job internally refer to folders on those different mount points (2D/3D and video software projects linked to external libraries/files) . I would really like to avoid having to relink each and every asset in those files, so the network drive solution seems like the way to go. But the issue with that is, as far as I am aware, that there is no Recycle Bin functionality. I can not risk losing client files, so this is scary to me. Would there be a possibility to create virtual disks of some sorts and link folders residing on Drivepool to those so that I can Ctrl-Z accidental deletions? I'm guessing Drive Bender does something like that behind the scenes. I don't think it uses Subst (DB allows renaming mounts), and the mount points show up with regular drive icons and have Recycle Bin functionality. As far as I can imagine it could be possible but the issue would be the drive size management? The obvious thing to do would be to only use the network drives so the software can find the files and to use the Drivepool mount for any direct file manipulations. Changing decade old habits is tough though, so if I can find a workaround that keeps everything as before would be great. Thanks for any insight you might have!

Once you've obtained your own API key from Google, the file to edit is C:\ProgramData\StableBit CloudDrive\ProviderSettings.json I also suggest making a backup copy of that file before you make any changes to it. You may then need to restart clouddrive. Per Christopher's post, "The safest option would be to detach the drive, change API keys, and re-attach. However, you *should* be able to just re-authorize the drive after changing the API keys." I suspect 350 Mbps is the best you'll get.

Hi varied, DrivePool will identify the two pools as being different and connect to each of them as two separate pools on the new PC. There is no built-in command to merge pools (yet) but it can be done manually.

Thanx Shane, i just wish their was a video guide in how to go about applying my own API key in this situation. As ive never attempted anything like this before, so dont want to get it wrong and lose everything in the process. Also 350 Mbps download approx i am getting but as i stated i had a 1GB connection. Is their a way to max this out any settings to change in stablebit to improve my speed or is 350 Mbps about the best i am going to get? Thank you for your help

I have 2 different machines using Stablebit Drivepool as I have 2 licenses. I am now building another PC where I will pool all the drives from these 2 PCS into a new PC and I will transfer one of my license to this new PC. What I want to know is that what will happen if Drivepool on new PC sees 2 different pools of HDDs moved from 2 old PCs. Will my pool/s rebuild in new PC? If yes, will it rebuild a new pool with 2 previous pools combined or will it rebuild 2 new pools in new PC? And, if it rebuilds 2 pools can I then merge them to a single pool? Thanks!

If you're wanting to keep things as simple as possible and you're going to long-format the old drives anyway, then I'd suggest trusting DrivePool to be able to handle the job? create the new pool copy your content from the old pool to the new pool remove the old pool (quickest way #1: stop the service, rename the poolpart.* folder on each to oldpart.*, start the service, remove the "missing" drives from the pool until all gone) (quickest way #2: eject the old drives, remove the "missing drives" until all gone, format the old drives on another machine) This has the side benefits of #A, not having to worry about manually fiddling with pool parts and/or resetting permissions, as unless you're deliberately copying across the permissions from the old pool your content should inherit them from the new pool, #B, you can optionally run lennert's treecomp or other comparison tool of choice after step 2 to ensure it got everything, bit-for-bit if desired, and #C, give the new Terra a good workout now rather than later. And at the end you'll have one pool. P.S. If you've got the drive capacity now, consider turning on real-time x2 duplication for the new pool. YMMV but even though I've got nightly backups, knowing that if any drive in my pools just decides to up and die out of the blue I still won't lose even one day's work from it gives me extra peace of mind.

As a rough estimate, 100TB at 350 Mbps would take at least 27 days (give or take) or almost twice as long as the days remaining until May 15th, so to have any chance of completing that successfully you'd definitely need to switch over to using your own API key. Note that even with your own key there's still a risk Google breaks something on their end (hopefully extremely unlikely but we can't rule it out) and you end up having to download the entire drive manually, so it's up to you to consider whether you should be safely detaching your clouddrive now so that you can begin the manual download.

Thanx, i just hope i can get as much as i can downloaded between now and the 15th May, then we will see how it works overall.

From above conversation and the FAQ, you should be able to continue to use Google Drive by enabling experimental/deprecated provider and set your own Google API key in the "ProviderSettings.json" file. However, they will not actively update the software to keep Google Drive provider working as Google could change their API at any time.

OMG! ive just spotted this & ive got over 100tb on gdrive via stablebit clouddrive! What is the quickest way i cant get my data downloaded please? as im getting approx 350 dload from stablebit on my 1gb internet service. Will google drive fully stop on the 15th May or will i still be able to access it untill google drive do a future update that breaks stablebit access? Thank You