Umfriend
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Alternatively, if the HDD had been scanned in the past, you could expand the HDD, choose the bottom small drop down box and select Mark All Readable Blocks Unchecked.
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That was my initial suspicion but the 2.15TB found.000 folder explains it already...
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Hi,
So I am running WSE2016 now. Clean install of DP, everything (everything) with default settings. I have a hierarchical Pool as follows:
1. P:\, x2 duplication, consisting of Q:\ and R:\
2. Q:\ and R:\ are both Pools, no duplication, each with 2x4TB and 1x2TB HDDs. No weird partitioning or anything, just plain HDDs.Now on Q and R, I have 1.3TB of data. The 2TB HDD is not used (as expected). Due to the deletion of a whole lot of files earlier, 4TB HDD1 as 253GB and 4TB HDD2 has 1.0TB of data. Same for both Pools Q and R. It has been like this for days and I have remeasured regularly. But for one reason or another, the data is not balanced between the two 4TB HDDs. Pool Organization is always optimal (full green bar). This is not the expected behaviour, is it? I would think the data would be spread out evenly over the two 4TB HDDs with a balancing pass.
If, however, I remove a 2TB HDD from either Pool, then DP starts working right away... What's up with that?
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In Scanner, expand the HDD (i.e. click the +-sign to the left of the HDD), press the smaal blue Play button, presto!
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No clue, don't know or use CD.
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No, only trough Pool C
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Oopsie, yes, Pool C.
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Yes, that 20GB thing may well be the culprit as DP writes to the HDD with the most space available. Try writing 25GB in dummy files to Pool A. If that creates an inner PoolPart.* folder on Media #1 then you're good to go.
Perhaps you can simply create that inner folder (same name as it has on Media #2) but I am not sure that will work.
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As I understand it, you have:
Pool A: HDD1&HDD2 (physical)
Pool B: Clouddrives
Pool C: Pool A and Pool B.
Then on Pool HDD1 and HDD2, you should have a Poolpart.* folder (different in name between the two HDDs) and in each another Poolpart.* folder (the same name between the two HDDs). If you don't then I would think you have not written any data to Pool A yet and that may be the reason it isn't there yet. I would suggest you write some dummy files to Pool A to force both HDDs to have the second Poolpart.* folder.And yes, then per HDD, move files/folders from the upper Poolpart.* to the lower Poolpart.* folder (stopping Drivepool service first, see the link).
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On the two HDDs, there are now two hidden poolpart.* folders, one within the other. What you would do is:
1. Stop DrivePool service
2. On each HDD itself, move the contents from one poolpart.* folder to the other
3. Start DrivePool service
4. Remeasure / Rebalance. I think this will start by itself.The full howto from Stablebit is here: http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4142489
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Hi Kelby,
I am pretty sure the found.000 is the result of dsome sort of checking and/or recovery (like DSKCHK). I am pretty sure you can delete it in the sense that nothing will break but I am not sure whether all data has been recovered somehow somewhere, so you might want to check first someway.
It has been rather recent (19 December 2018), I don;t know how to see what triggered it though. I am not even sure the found.000 relates to that specific HDD, may have been one or more others?
Are you running Stablebit Scanner? You might also want to look at Event Viewer to see if there are any DISK/ATAPI/IDE/NTFS errors there. Oh, if it was the result of a DSKCHK pass then it should have written a log somewhere, that might be interesting.
Googling helps I think, e.g. https://www.howtogeek.com/282798/what-are-the-found000-folder-and-file0000chk-file-in-windows/
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Hmm, I have only Start Menu, Stablebit Scanner.... No Tools. It used to run from the Scanner GUI, no?
Edit: WSE2016 as well since a few days.
Edit2: Ah, I can find the executable. But still, not from Scanner GUI?
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I would have sworn it did but somehow I can not find it...?!
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Can you explore the system volume information folders (in the root of the HDD and within the poolpart folder)?
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I really wouldn't know but I've never heard of original files landing in a recycle bin after a modification.
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Ah, well, when I read synchronise I always assume that that goes for changes and deletions as well. And with a backup solution I do mean something that goes offsite (in case of fire, theft etc).
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You could consider a real backup solution.
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12 hours ago, --Jason-- said:
Do you happen to know if when doing a mirror like this, the folder structure in both drives will match what's setup in the pool? Meaning in the drives themselves, things won't get rearranged and scrambled? The folder structure/hierarchy will remain true across the pool and the two real drives?
If you have x2 duplication and 2 HDDs in the Pool then yes, it will remain the same for both HDDs. This is becuase DP ensures no duplicates are stored on the same physical HDD.
If you have x2 duplication on 4 HDDs then the story becomes different and it depends on the circumstances but mostly no, it will not mirror Disk 1 to Disk 3 and Disk 2 to Disk 4 for example. If you really want that then there are things you can do. There is the File Placement Rules option or you could use hierarchical Pools. I have two Pools, no duplication, each with 2x4TB and 1x2TB. Then I created a x2 duplication Pool consisting of the two "actual" Pools. Duplication is mirrored between the two Pools (but it probably is not or will not remain at the actual HDD level).
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Hi, due to the upgrade to WSE2016, I used http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q5510455 to reset the permissions on the Pool. For the permissions on the shared folders, I like to use the dashboard. But now it seems that all users can access all shares (even though the Shared Folder Properties from the dashboard do not show this). Is this because I executed step 12:
Set the "Principal" to "Users" and give it the "Read & Execute", "List folder contents" and "Read" permissions. and hit "OK".
And if so, can I simply remove them and would the permissions generated by the dashboard remain?
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AFAIK, there is no way. Call it a flaw but it is no different from losing a non-Pooled HDD. And that is what DP provides, a virtual very large HDD. Unless you use duplication. Or better yet, a backup.
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Got another slot and cable?
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Sounds like it. Hope it just needs you to re-seat a cable.
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Just to ensure it's not a disk issue, could you open up Event Viewer and check for IDE/ATAPI/NTFS/DISK errors?
Scanner lost all data?
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I am using 3220 BETA but I've had to press the reset button on my Server a few times (it became unresponsive and the power button did not shut it down, wonder how I can analyze/diagnose this...). After boot, Scanner lost all settings and scan history. Each time.
Edit: In Event Viewer, I do see Scanner throwing an Event after each such reboot. Want me to submit an error report somehow/where?
Edit2: I wonder whether it could have something to do with using Bitlocker? DP waits a while, right? Maybe Scanner tries to access the disks to early?