Hi,
TLDR: For some reason all my Gdrive disks are dynamic now and I don't know why this happened. Is it possible to fix it without data loss or is my 60TB data gone?
Longer story:
I have been using GDrive for a while now to store all my media content and everything has worked wonderfully for several months. I started with CloudDrive (Google Drive) + x1 drive (60TB) and after some trial and error managed to increase this to x3 60TB drives and included DrivePool to the setup for pooling everything.
I choose not to use duplication option in DrivePool (all plugins disabled) since that would burn the upload limit/day (according to what I've read) and some sector settings etc might not be optimal from the beginning but everything worked without any issues so I didn't care much
But, something broke today and I don't know why.
I had one physical drive (with multiple partitions) which I only used for VMs on my PC and today I decided to format it. As soon as I pressed the format button DrivePool started warning me about missing disks. For me this is a mystery because the drive and the partitions were never a part of the GDrive pool ever.
So I started troubleshooting CloudDrive / DrivePool first, reinstalled Drivepool etc but nothing helped.
After some google searches on missing volumes in DrivePool I came across "dynamic disks" and when I looked my partitions in Windows I realized that yes, all of the GDrives are dynamic.
I don't know when or why this happened but now the whole setup is broken because dynamic disks seems to be unsupported by DrivePool.
I can still see the content if I manually add a drive letter to the GDrives (so I haven't lost everything yet) but since they are split into three volumes the content is not same on them and I dont' really now how to repair this without messing it up even more.
So my questions are:
Is there any way to solve this in a easy way?
I read some about converting the disks but most of the guides involves deleting the partitions, I guess that will destroy all my data too even if it's stored in the cloud?
Should I create a new GDrive disk (with optimal settings from start), partition it and then move all data to this drive?
This will probably take ages since there is a upload cap/day but at least I won't loose anything.
If this is the solution, please give me some tips on which settings I should use in CloudDrive/DrivePool. I only stream Plex media and the content is 1080p or lower, my connection is 1Gbit/1Gbit.
Could I maybe solve this by not using DrivePool anymore and just keep use CloudDrive?
This will make things more complicated since I must switch drive paths when they get full so I hope this is the last resort.
Any other options?
Apprieciate all the help I can get!
Thanks!