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OrozarBE

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    OrozarBE reacted to Ultradianguy in Issues with Macrium Image Guard - Beware   
    I've been puzzled why unduplicated content on a drive with SMART warnings and damage was not being removed, despite setting various balancers to do so. 
    I discovered today part of the reason - possibly all of it.  I believe all the remaining unduplicated content were backup images from Macrium Reflect.  Reflect has an anti-ransomware function that can prevent any changes to backup files.  This was preventing drivepool from removing them.  I realized this when I shut down drivepool service and tried to manually move those files to another drive.
    I'd have expected drivepool to report that files were inaccessible - but apparently it did not know other software was actually blocking it - which brings me to the next issue.
     
    Stablebit Scanner reported 20 unreadable sectors on this drive and 3 damaged files.  SMART had indicated 5 pending sectors.  I decided to re-run the scan after disabling the Macrium Image Guard - so far, it appears the unreadable sectors may have been caused by Image Guard and may not be bad.  
    Remains to be seen whether the 5 pending sectors will end up being reallocated or become readable. 
    The damaged files however were NOT image backups, so it's unclear if there was any connection.
    Bottom line:  don't use Macrium Image Guard (or any other similar software) with pooled files.  I may just move my image files out of the pool to avoid the issue.
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