alexwick
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Yeah I am looking at a 8 TB actually. instead of a 6 even... It's like 25$ more
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well I have always just bought pairs off drives...
I am carfeull with how drivepool works and if it have any quirks... I have used this for years now, but have not really paid to much attention to it in the last 2-3 years, so i just dont remember if there is anything i have to be carefull about.
I just have to many disk that are getting older... Need to reduce disks and replace the one that seems damaged
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Hey, I have a setup with like a four 3 TB Drives mirrored. and a few 2 TB disks
I was wondering since one of them failed and i have a total of 12 disks.... (Yes, my rig is too full)
Can I replace 2x3 TB disks with one 6TB disk for now... and then at some point change another set of 2x3 TB disk when i have some more $$$
Thanks
Alex
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Thank you.
do you have a comment on:
on another note... I am not using a server platform but WIN 8. Any other software suggestions (freeware preferred)
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ok.... so.... here an update...
I synced as much as i could Raid0 from main computer with Photos drive old (slowley failing) to photo drive new.... (with the intention of later removing the old failing one and add a second new one for duplication)
Now i could sync most of it, but i keptr getting fails becasue of I/O errors... So I decided to let 95% sync be good enough (I still have the good original on the Raid0 on main PC to complete the last 5%)
disconnected the old drive and put in the new drive. ok... added it to the pool... and well it seemed to start to copy.... My intention was that it should "duplicate" to the new drive since i have the balancer (only one active) to use this drive as the first HD to write on...
Now after a few hgours... I found out 2 things that suprised me...
eventhough the balancer is set NOT to start by itself...
The duplication started!!!
and 2nd It didnt use the HD i expected to be use... but the other 2 HD (Photos/1990-2011) where I had a a few GB left, but intended to leave empty... (it was a also a raid1 before... so they were identical) since drivepool used there space to duplicate Photo 2012+ i guess i have part of it on the first (Photos/1990-2011) and another part on the second (Photos/1990-2011)...
can u explain why duplication started on its own... and also why it didnt use the HDD I selected?
Would like some clarification.... since anything that is unexpected or I don't understand i really dislike!
If that is problem there are programs that will sniff out duplicate files and report them. You should be able to use that on the pool itself, and consolidate the files rather quickly.
If you're using a WHS2011 based system, then "Snoop De-Dupe" is a good add-in that does that (we are not affiliated, nor get anything for recommending them).
on another note... I am not using a server platform but WIN 8. Any other software suggestions (freeware preferred)
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hey guys...
Robo copy looks to "manual" for me...
I have used synctoy for a while... Dont remember why i stopped...
Then i use(ed) Good sync... what seems to be good.... BUT maybe it has TOO MANY options... I try to be simple...!
I just want My folder
Photos/2014 to be synced from my main PC (from a Raid0)
to my Fileserver PC which is using Drivepool....
My photos and videos will be loaded to my main PC and should be replicated... either with a push of a button or every evening...
I just started trying free file sync... which i actually like so far...
But I will still look into allaway sync...
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Hey, I am ideally looking for a easy sync software that is free....
I have a raid0 on my main PC for editing video and Photos. It syncs to my Media Drives on my HTPC as backup.
What is the best way to just sync (mostly one way) from this main pc to the HTPC, so over network?
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Just to be clear, when it checks for duplicates, they must be in the EXACT same location on each disk. At least the same location under "PoolPart.xxxxx".
For instance, lets say you have:
D:\PoolPart.123..890\Folder1\textfile1.txt
E:\PoolPart.abc..xyz\Folder1\textfile1.txt
D:\PoolPart.123..890\Folder2\textfile1.txt
E:\PoolPart.abc..xyz\Folder2\textfile2.txt
When it checks for duplication, it will look at the "Folder1" and "Folder2" folders, and the files in them. If they match, like Folder1\textfile1.txt, it will mark that the file is duplicated, then check to see if it is supposed to be. If it is, then nothing happens. If it isn't, it will delete one copy, leaving only one.
However, it will not mark Folder1\textfile1.txt and Folder2\textfile1.txt as duplicate files. They are in different folders and will be processed separately. The same with textfile1.txt and textfile2.txt in the Folder2 folder, even if both files contain the same contents.
So yes, only if it's in the same location in the PoolPart folder is it counted as a duplicate, as that is how we store the files.
I think this is very IMPORTANT INFO to understand the concept, and makes me feel much better... It should be better explained in the product description!
so everything will be stored in the SAME FOLDER STRUCTURE.... I didnt know this until you explained it... and would have felt much safer to migrate... if explained in the product description.
That being said, I understand that the whole concept isnt to easy to break down....
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I converted the second one to basic disk... but I found a tool that lets me keep the contend.
And as for how it works, when you change the status, it will scan the contents of the drives, check on the duplication status of all the files, compare that to what it expects, and then copy or delete files as needed to get to the proper duplication status.how does it know what to delete? Lets say i have a file 10 times on my disks... how does it know that i want it deleted of drive A for example.
However, this will only process files in the "PoolPart" folders, and will only compare files in the same location on the different drives.SO only if a file is in the same location it counts as a duplicate...?!?
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If it's the only drive, then, that is precarious.... I would recommend converting the old drive, add it to the pool, and then enable duplication. At this point, the background service for StableBit DrivePool will check the duplication status and duplicate the files as needed.This is what i have done...
ho long should the duplication check and duplication take? it is hanging around 78% for a while now...
As for the drive, what SMART error are you seeing?Read error 0.4%
reallocated sector counts seem to be the main ones.
I cannot RMA it its out of warranty.
This Disk that is failing is also duplicated on my main computer as Raid0
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ok, can someone please help me out?
I have the first raid1 disk imported under drive pool.... should i just add the second one, and DP will see that i have 2 files which are the same and wont start a new "duplication" ?
How does the duplication of DP work... ?
If i have folder duplication active... will DP scan all files in the pool and check if duplicates exist and if they do it will not take action, and if no duplicate is found it will create one.
Would it delete files that are present i.e. 5 times if i only have duplication active? If so which files will it delete?
Please help... I am eager to get this done... and am scared to mess this up!
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If you had more disks than just the two, I would have recommended just adding the array to the pool, and migrating the data into the pool folder structure (aka "seeding the pool").
However, since you've already broken the array.... Since it is mirrored, remove one disk from the dynamic disk array. The other disk should remain and the data remain intact (but back up the data first, just in case). That will be "destructive" to the data on that drive (but should be fine on the other disk in the array). Once it's converted to a Basic disk, add it to the pool. Then copy the data from the remaining dynamic disk to the pool. Once that's done, convert the other drive to a basic disk and add it to the pool.
Remember it's dynamic disks... i could not add the array!
Well the point is not to backup... because if i backup i could just copy it... (what essentially a backup is.. lol)
anyways.... i have one disk successfully integrated... now i have the duplicate disk (second one of the old raid1).
since i want to have 2 copies in drivepool, what is also here the easiest way? just add the 2nd to the pool and it will see that we have 2 copies and all is good? or how do you suggest to add the second disk?
In addition... So every pool has ONE drive letter? and ion order to really have the FULL benefit, it would make sense only to use one maybe 2 drive letters...
... so for example i could not have 10 disks in ONE pool and somewhere in the software i can assign disc-letters... like i.e. i can partition a HDD.
Is the ideal setup (minimum wasted space) to have same size disks if you want to have duplication enabled.
on another note. scanner is indicating one disk will fail very soon... is is better to:
a) integrate it to the pool first and then let DP build the first copy to empty disk
make manually a copy with win explorer over to new disk and then integrate it to DP.S.M.A.R.T. is not predicting imminent disk failure. However, some well known S.M.A.R.T. attributes that are indicators of mechanical problems are showing signs that the drive could be failing.
Thanks!!! looking forward to the reply...
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I did break the Raid, but they both still show up as dynamic discs which i cant add... how can i convert the to basic discs without data loss?
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what is the best way to migrate the raid 1, so that i dont have to build the duplication...?
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Today after the synchronization was done it still seems that the system is using the drives heavily... since it says BUS still saturated.
any thoughts why my drives are always used? even though i don't do anything..?
what can i do... help please!
wow i just checked drive manager in Windows... and the two raid 1 disk are re syncing AGAIN... they were at 100% last night.... why do they do that again !??
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dynamic disks. No controller. WIN 8.1. 64 bit.
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ok... looks like mu kids fell over the powercord of the pc earlier... and it just turned off...
seems like 2 disk in raid 1 are resyncing. Does that make sense?
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hey,
I started using scanner yesterday, but it seems, that it doesnt want to scan, because the bus is busy...
In the task manager i have the HDD used to 30
HDD drive always used to 30% from system
does this make sense?
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Hello,
I moved most of my hard drives from my main PC to my Storage / HTPC server.
Now currently I am running a
- Windows Raid 1 (duplication) two 3 TB drives (personal Media up to 2011)
- 1 Single 3 TB harddrive (personal other files)
- 1 single 2 TB files which seems to be slowly failing (personal Media 2012+)
- adding two new 3 TB drives next week
all of those are backed up to the cloud with crashplan. Crashplan is re-synchronizing right now.
I heard much good about drivepool. BUT I am really confused why I hardly cant find any YOUtube videos like reviews or hands one videos (is it not that popular)
I just installed a trial and what i read was that it will always write data on the harddrive that is the least full.
Now I always like a backdoor. And it seems drivepool gives you that backdoor. BUT and that seems to be a BIG BUT...
files might be randomly on different harddrives...!!! With 5TB of Photos (lets say 200.000 photos) I see a NIGHTMARE ever wanting to change back....!
I DO like the idea that drivepool could duplicate everything, but I am really scared off making a HUGH Mess!!!
Why do I want to use drivepool... for example i like to have all Media in one drive... since i have more than 3 TB data i cannot physically store it in only one HD.
Also currently my Raid1 cant be used from drivepool. I would have to "unraid" and go from there... (but how)
any thoughts would really be appreciated!!!
Let say I want to Migrate... what would be the best way to do so?
Alex
disk failure - replacement questions
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Posted · Edited by alexwick
added 2nd question
So i had a disk fail a while ago (3TB)... I really havnt paid to much attention to DP in the last year. it was just running more or less...
Since the drive was failing, i removed it from the pool and it started measuring. (still doing it as i type this)
Now after it's done i plan to add the new drive (8TB). )or should I do that right now?
My question is in there a LOG that I can see somewhere when the last successful file duplication check was?
Just making sure i haven't lost anything. WIth 10TB complete pool it's hard to see by just checking through the files...
ALSO
2nd question. before i always filled up the pool and added 2 same size dirves (2 times 2 TB 2 times 3 TB ) etc.... now i want to replace some older drives, after the one that crashed is reduplicated.
What is the best way to do this? One at a time? (like the older 2TB drives the have at least started as original and / backup) I am afraid if i take more then one out i might take a original AND a backup out at the same time.... but ideally the oldest 2 TB need to be replaced as well.
Thank
Alex