Kevin Fonda

One last question...:-) any suggestions on how I should format the external drive for my backups?

Thanks for the suggestions, I just needed to know I wasn't going to screw things up too bad :-) Is there anything I need to know about restoring the client backups if I lose the data in the pool and need to put it back from the external backup? On a side note... I noticed from another thread that you started using Emby. What are you using for the front end. I've set up the server on my windows server box and also set up kodi on the same box to feed a mysql DB and i'm running kodi on RPi 2's and PCs for clients. I love the combination and the ability to use Emby for remote access and transcoding. Emby is like Drive Pool and Flirc in my opinion... these are elegantly designed programs that just plain work and the simplicity of the design is what makes the products great. Like the Flirc just simply showing up as a USB keyboard to the computer makes everything else behind it trivial. Sorry for getting side tracked there.:-)

Hi, I recently bought an external Seagate 4TB drive to use for the server backup. I would like to also backup the 'client computer backups' folder which is on the pool. Is there any down side to partitioning the 4TB drive into 2 - 2TB partitions and using 1 for server backup and using something else to sync the client backups from the pool to the other partition? If this is not a problem which sync software would be best for this?

Thanks for the very quick response. Are you ever not on one forum or another? :-) Keep up the great work with DrivePool and Scanner. It's one of the most useful pieces of software I have ever purchased and I don't think I've ever seen anyone say anything negative about it.

Hi guys, I get the following 2 errors in my logs twice a day. I tracked it down to the vvsadmin command being run by TaskScheduler at 6am and 1pm. There are 3 instances of the task 1 for the volume that is drive C: 1 for Drive D: (both on 1st physical disk) and 1 for Drive N: which is the DrivePool and also the one showing the error. I don't know what this task is for or why it only appears for those 3 volumes. I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. I have 3 questions: 1. What does this task do? 2. Can I delete the task for the DrivePool volume without causing any adverse efects? 3. Should I be concerned that the other volumes don't run this task? Type : Error Date : 6/19/2014 Time : 1:00:13 PM Event : 7001 Source : VSS Category : None User : N/A Computer : SERVER2012.COMPUWIZ.local Description: VssAdmin: Unable to create a shadow copy: The shadow copy provider had an error. Please see the system and application event logs for more information. Command-line: 'C:\Windows\system32\vssadmin.exe Create Shadow /AutoRetry=15 /For=\\?\Volume{51561225-62ee-4627-aa23-da7ee461ff03}\'. Type : Error Date : 6/19/2014 Time : 1:00:13 PM Event : 12289 Source : VSS Category : None User : N/A Computer : SERVER2012.COMPUWIZ.local Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl(\\?\Volume{51561225-62ee-4627-aa23-da7ee461ff03} - 0000000000000194,0x0053c008,000000A696C320F0,0,000000A696C33100,4096,[0]). hr = 0x80820001, The bootfile is too small to support persistent snapshots. . Operation: Processing EndPrepareSnapshots Context: Execution Context: System Provider