In DP you can go in the Balancer settings and under placement Filter, you can choose what data goes where and if it is duplicated data, unduplicated data or both. You can simply remove the checkbox on both and DP will not put data on that drive. But as i said, you will need to manually manage this.
What I'd like to be able to do is create a single pool for all my media using multiple drives (that will be extended over time by adding additional drives). I would like to to be able to copy any file added to these drives to a hot-swap drive as well, that can be removed when full for offsite storage.
Will DrivePool handle this OOB? Right now I'm considering using the plug-in that allows me to fill one drive at a time, and then just copying the contents of that drive to the hot-swap when it fills ... but that seems less elegant than it should.
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