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Hey everyone, just joined the forum a few minutes ago. Stablebit Scanner is such a great program that I purchased two licenses for myself and love it! I recently purchased a Rosewill RSV-S8 enclosure and a RocketRAID 642L RAID card. I know, it's not the greatest card, but it does work okay for now.
 
Stablebit Scanner doesn't pull SMART data from any drive connected to the 642L card, whether it's a single disk or the enclosure. I also tested the enclosure direct to my motherboard and it was able to pull SMART info from a disk. Seems like it's definitely the controller...
 
I did some research on the forums and a few people suggest some sort of UnsafeIO setting. Not sure what to do yet as I don't want to mess anything up, so I'd rather get some advice from you guys and/or the developers!

 

I haven't had any experience with torrenting directly to my pool, but that was a conscious decision on my part. My main pool consists of 4 disks that are only accessed for storing/retrieving VERY rarely, and they are set to go to sleep after 30 minutes. Obviously for me, I wouldn't want something like constant torrent activity keeping the drives awake (downloading, seeding, etc). So I came up with a cool way to transfer torrents only after they've been completed.  You may be asking "Why doesn't he just use the store downloading files here and completed files here option in utorrent", that wouldn't work for my setup since the completed location would be the pool, thus keeping the hard drives spun up from seeding.

uTorrent stores completed downloads to my C drive (the C drive is always on anyway). Then, an app called SyncBackPro detects the completed torrent files and copies to my pool. Afterwards, I use another app to delete the original torrent from my C drive after 2 weeks (allows for seeding to almost always finish after downloading, cause I like to seed). The 2nd app is called Belvedere, which is an app that detects file changes and can perform an action when an event is triggered. So basically, I told Belvedere to delete files/folders that are older than 2 weeks. Works great for me, especially with huge multiGB downloads! Keeps my 4 pooled disks sleeping, until the torrent is complete, and then it does its thing in the background without me having to touch a thing.

I do realize this might not help you or might be a complex setup, but I figured i'd throw in my two cents!

Strange that some people have issues with direct pool torrenting though, I'll have to test that one day.

I highly recommend SyncBackPro from 2Brightsparks for syncing. It has an awesome feature which can trigger a sync automatically when it detects a file has been changed on the source, instantly syncing to the destination afterwards. So you don't even have to schedule anything. It's always on and always synced

But you DID mention free, so... that might not work for you. Here's their site if you're interested though:
 
http://www.2brightsparks.com/

Thank you for grabbing the logs. I've flagged them for Alex and he'll take a look at them soon.

Actually, Server Backup is probably using a specific VSS/Backup Writer for the SQL Server. Since I'm sure this is MS SQL Server that you're talking about, then that would definitely be the case. And in fact, Microsoft has made sure that Server Backup is "aware" of SQL Server, and is part of the "application" section. So you may be able to restore just the database, if needed.
And it definitely takes a VSS snapshot, to prevent inconsistency in the data. 
 
 
It really depends on the database. 
If you're using SQLite (which is most likely the case with OwnCloud), then you should be able to just backup the files. Running a robocopy (or even just "copy") script should be enough to do so.
If you're using MySQL, you can run a script to dump the database into a SQL file (or even use phpMyAdmin to do this manually). 
As for SQL Server, well that's a lot trickier unfortunately. But I do believe you can create a database dump as well.

About the backup. I would think that one would never want an OS to backup a database, that is something the DBMS should do itself. However, I run SQL Server on a client and the databases are in fact backed-up by WHS2011. So much so that SQL Server is actually aware of the backups WHS2011 takes. No clue what MS did there but I like it. Just to test I restored one and indeed could attach it and it was the full DB. Of course, I have no clue how that works AIW actual transactions occur on the DB during backup.
 
My point is, maybe Server Backup, which AFAIK uses VSS as well, can do the same as well.

Yeah, there shouldn't be a problem doing os. 
But you'll want to make absolutely certain that "Real-time duplication" is enabled. (default).
 
However, it is likely that the SQL server will keep the pool activate at all times.
 
Also, keep in mind that running the SQL database on the server may make it more difficult to back up the database (if that is a concern).

Well, according to the image, everything is "fine".
 
By fine, I mean that files don't get automatically evened out between the disks. The default file placement strategy is to place files on the disk with the most available free space. It doesn't move existing files unless another balancer (such as Scanner) tells it to move files off of a disk.
 
Though it does look like the feeder disk is slowly balancing data off of it.

That really sucks, and hope you're able to recover your lost data. 

I, too, lost a drive the other day (WD2002FYPS, Mfg Date: 14 May 2012) and it sucked. It died with no imminent SMART warnings at all. But I suspect it died because of the high load cycle count (which still baffles me, as this is an enterprise-grade drive).

I use Drivepool in combination with SyncBack pro to mirror/backup the entire pool to an external disk. On SyncBack I set up versioning so that if files are missing/deleted on the next source->destination check, they will get placed into a versioning directory. At the very least, if a drive died on my pool, the next Sync on SyncBack will show me what files I lost, if any, and I could recover them.

 

Thanks Chris. You are helping me achieve my goal of a perfect storage setup day by day. 

BTW, saw an episode of home server show on youtube and you were on it. Awesome job on that! : )