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  1. JazzMan

    File Placement

    I added some file placement (folder) rules. How do I force DrivePool to shuffle existing files around to match those rules?
  2. Well, I did mention in OP that rebooting didn't help. Nonetheless, after porting I created another directory and moved the files to it at the command prompt and can see those in Explorer. Just a bit confused as what could have happened, as rebooting didn't help. What path to the file system does the command prompt use that is different from the Windows GUI? That's rhetorical, no need to respond.
  3. Hm. Have been using DrivePool for 3+ years pretty successfully. System Win 7 x64 Sp1. DP ver 2.2.0.651 Beta No recent system updates (win auto update is off) No special user permissions on files, and none have the hidden attribute set. Explorer options are set to show me everything--hidden files, system files, extensions, yadda, yadda I ran the following command in a batch file from a command prompt to move files from a set of subirectories up to their parent; For /R "Photo" %%F In ("*.jpg") Do If Not Exist "Photo\%%~nxF" move "%%F" "Photo\%%~nxF" I ran this and got log messages saying each file was moved, but when I looked in Explorer, the parent folder is empty (<scared>), nor in the subdirectories. However, if at a command prompt I do a dir in the parent folder I do see the files. I tried rebooting but that did not make the files appear. Any ideas on how to get the files to appear? I routinely do a lot of file manipulation in both bat files and the GUI and this seems to be the first time this has happened. Any idea why? About the only difference here is when I do FOR it is usually not with the /R switch. Cheers, David
  4. Yes. DP does not care how or where the drive is physically connected; it uses the hidden poolpart folders to recognize the drive. I believe if your system allows hot-swapping, then you should not have to shut down the physical server of DP service..
  5. Yes, if you have whole disk duplication turned on, the effective useable space is half the raw space. The advantage to this, though, is that you have an automatic immediate online backup and don't have to deal with all the stories you see about parity based RAID arrays not rebuilding or taking a week to rebuild. The other advantage is being able to include a mixture of drives of any size. You can also configure to duplicate only certain folders also, though, so if there was a lot of temp work in the pool or something you could survive losing, you can exclude those folders from duplication.
  6. Uploaded copies from "restore previous versions". The first one or two are probably what you would want, after that I was just always deleting the ProgramData before even trying to restart the service. Its not very significant to me that you pursue it, as I used the "reset the settings" workaround once I found it. I did it manually because I didn't know I could do it in the UI. Thanks.
  7. I'm sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a forum post or wiki faq. While stopping and starting the Stablebit service to move files around, I noticed my pool drive letter was still available. What functionality is in the service versus elsewhere? What can i do safely to the pool drive with the service off? Is the service just for balancing? EG, with the service stopped; If I rename a file or folder on the pool, do all copies get renamed? If I copy a file to the pool, does it get duplicated? Version 2.x
  8. Thanks. I came across a forum post that mentioned deleting %AppData%\StableBit DrivePool, so that is what I did, and that worked. You might want to add that step to reset the settings (UI or alternate) to the wiki.
  9. Following; http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_F1655 Got to step 4, but the unpooled disks are not showing up to add to the existing pool. Does DP still think they are associated to the missing pool? So, I had 8 drives in pool D: and 5 in pool E: stopped the service and moved the subfolders of the poolpart hidden folder to the root of each of the 5 drives that made up E: started the service and as the wiki states, E: has disappeared But now, all I have available to add to pool D: is my C: drive, none of the disks that were unpooled from E: I restarted the computer but the drives are still unavailable to pool. Ver 2.2.0.651
  10. Was this feature ever implemented? Is the manual process described still valid? Where is the "really easy way to migrate to DrivePool" explained?
  11. JazzMan

    BSOD

    I did read that wiki and have the computer configured that way through a couple of BSODs. The DMP file does not get written though. I'll mess with it some more. Thanks.
  12. JazzMan

    BSOD

    Hello, Drivepool works very well, but I am having an issue. Over the course of about a week my computer's available memory gradually decreases and eventually I get a BSOD like in the attached. Unfortunately when this happens, although Windows is set to reboot on error, it is not doing that, I believe because the file system is not available for it to write the dump/log file. I could almost live with this if the computer would reboot, but I often remote into this PC, so when it does die, I have to physically go to it to reboot it, which is not convenient. I am not sure what other info you need, so here is some, but let me know what else; Running Windows 7 64-bit with SP1. 16GB RAM. DrivePool version 2.2.0.570 BETA The C (boot) drive is not part of any pool. The D: drive is a pool of about 20TB about half of which is free. This is all just data; no OS stuff. The entire D drive/pool is set for duplication (x2). The main activity on the PC is downloads and uploads being performed by one other program. There is maybe 10GB data written to the D drive each day as maybe a few thousand files. I know devs are sensitive about "memory leaks" but right now I do not believe it is the other program that is seemingly eating up and not freeing the memory. Thanks, David
  13. This method does not seem to work for my USB 3 JBOD disks. When I select those, diskpart says "Location Path : UNAVAILABLE"
  14. >> Could you enable file system logging and reproduce the issue? I uploaded a log at the wiki link as well as a link in the description to a short screen cap showing what I see.
  15. >> As for the pool, I think I may have mis-understood you here. I don't think you misunderstood. DrivePool is managing two different pools, one is purely internal drives and the other purely external drives, neither is heterogeneous. "D:" is a pool of six internal drives, and "E:" is a pool of four external drives. For some reason, when "E:" disappeared (yes, if I turn off the tower "E:" is removed), DrvePool thought it needed to "measure" "D:". At least that is what seemed to happen, although maybe I don't understand what this step is and what triggers it. >> However, one way around this would be to manually set the disks as "offline" in disk management. I'll look into that. Do you know if that is script-able?
  16. Watching more closely with Windows Explorer and the DrivePool UI open, it looks like what happens is the pool does get unmounted but then it gets re-mounted again within a matter of seconds. Is there some "auto detect" feature I can turn off? If I just turn off the tower when the drives should not be active I get messages from DrivePool that disks in the pool are no longer available and such. It also sends DrivePool into a lot of disk activity "Measuring..." the internal pool that should not have changed at all. I'd like to keep things cleaner if possible.
  17. I am running DrivePool 2.x on Windows 7. Am I able to unmount a pool? If I click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" thingy in the tray and select the "Eject Covecube Virtual Disk", nothing seems to happen. The drive letter for the pool remains, although a windows balloon tells me that the device is now safe to remove. I'm not asking about adding/removing drives from the pool, but affecting the availability of the pool itself. Specifically, I am asking in regards to an external Mediasonic JBOD tower that I would like to turn off occasionally. I have a pool configured that contains all of, and only drives from, the tower. I need DrivePool to remain running though because I have a second internal pool.
  18. OK, thanks for trying. I don't know how/if your competition (StorageSpaces, DriveBender) handles symlinks. Sounds like it is harder than I thought it wuld be. No worries.
  19. I installed the 2.0.0.281_x64_BETA above on Win7. I was able to successfully create a symlink. However, if I try to access the files via that link I don't see any files. If I look at the PoolPart directory the link appears to be created correctly and it does resolve to the target location. Also; in Win Explorer, if I do a properties of the PoolPart object it shows a "Shortcut" tab, but the properties of the CoveFS object don't show a Shortcut tab. The CoveFS object icon does show the shortcut arrow thingy though. C:\Users\JazzMan>d: D:\>cd pictures D:\Pictures>dir "d:\sorted\pic jpg0" /b/a-d | find /v /c "::" 100000 D:\Pictures>mklink /d "pic jpg0" "d:\sorted\pic jpg0" symbolic link created for pic jpg0 <<===>> d:\sorted\pic jpg0 D:\Pictures>dir "d:\pictures\pic jpg0" /b/a-d | find /v /c "::" File Not Found 0 D:\Pictures>dir "U:\PoolPart.e142bb7a-bef5-4415-bf1a-f47a426a45c2\Pictures\pic jpg0" /b/a-d | find /v /c "::" 100000
  20. Just had a project where it would have been nice if the DrivePool volume supprted the creation of symbolic links (mklink). I did what I needed to by having the link targets reference the individual drives that made up the pool, but having direct support for this within DrivePool would have been a plus. Not sure how hard that would be to add or what issues there might be.
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