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what about VPN? found a neat article about setting up VPN on the WHS 2011, and this app should work well for that, http://www.stratospherix.com/, but it doesn't help with backup of the camera roll, I wonder if with VPN, and being on wifi, would you be able to sync your phone with iTunes if you had it running on the server, interesting.
Drashna, which smart phone are you using? I'm was looking at the getting a windows phone for the whs addin, but figured I'd wait to see what MS and nokia have in store for the 8.1 phone due out Q2 of next year. While I'm not a fan of the iphone, I just got the 5S, but you can cancel your contract, pay the early termination fee, sell the phone on Ebay, and end up making a few bucks.
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Hi,
Just a quick question.
Does DrivePool have the option to include a hotspare disk so that when it detects a disk that is failing it will automatically switch to that disk?
I'm fairly certain that feature does not exist, but if your also using Scanner with Drive pool, if scanner detects imminent failure of a drive, drivepool will try to evacuate data from the problem disk, but you must have enough available space on the existing drives. You can read more here, http://blog.covecube.com/2012/09/stablebit-drivepool-balancing-plug-ins-and-scanner-integration/.
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I can access my whs 2011 with safari on the iphone, but I could only download files, not upload, the option just doesn't show up in the broswer, but now with the sky drive app installed (I just realized this), I can use that to upload the file back to my server (skydrive account), so that maybe an intern solution. We've discuss own cloud over at WGS, I had some performance issues on my local network, but that could have been my hardware, HP N40l is not the fastest server, but I found it to be to complex for me, while I was successful in the installation, I don't think I want to deal with reinstallation, or managing the PHP or SQL updates,. if something broke, more than likely, I couldn't fix it.
I do have high hopes with POBH, but I'm not sure what their direction is, right now it's only for desktop backup, if they add functionality for mobile devices, then yeah, this would be a good solution.
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Ok, question for the experts, more like advice, how are you accessing data on your server with your mobile device, for me, it's an Iphone. I've been looking at some apps, cloud storage, but I really don't want to use the cloud, So there's an iphone app called Filebrowser which will let me access my files like SMB shares, which is half of my goal, I would also like to be able to upload my photos, when I'm out and about, and delete from the phone to save space (or if I lose the phone) and skydrive seems to work for that, found another app called Tonido Desktop which may do both, haven't installed it yet. If the the app worked for streaming , thatwould be great but not necesary, so instead of reinventing the wheel, figured I see what you all may be doing.
http://www.tonido.com/tonidodesktop/
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Are you using a 3rd party backup solution for your shares? I was using a program that would only backup data in a zip file, no mater if you were using compression or not, and when it would merge archives, it would store a huge temp file on the c drive, needless to say I found a new backup program.
my whs install with DP is taking up 33GB's.
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That is exactly what I will do. The only other option that I can think of would be to backup the absolute paths for each of the drives. IE
E:/Movies
F:/Movies
G:/Movies
The only problem with this is E could have all of the data and F and G might not have any. There is no great solution due to the fact that CrashPlan downloads everything, even if the file is present. Ohh well. I still have the data and that is what is most important!
I have Charter. No Caps (as of yet). I also have the 100 down/5 up line. I have never had an issue with bandwidth usage. That even includes the month where I backed up 1.7tb of data.
check out exacfile or file verifier plus++, these are checksum tools which allow you to export a list of your files in a folder/directory and maintain an inventory, and you can also use the output to verify files restored from the cloud are the same as the original file (compare checksum), this assumes your ran a check sum prior to losing your files.
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@dbailey: yeah, Comcast... well, they have their own term for horribleness: "Comcastic".
But in their defense, it's easier to charge more for bandwidth than it is to spend millions to actually upgrade the infrastructure. Just saying.
My ISP is only slightly better than them. And they have a worst name, one that they seem to try to live up to: Cox.
If you intend on using the Cloud a lot, or host a website on your connection, it may be worth looking into the business accounts. They tend to not have the bandwidth caps, don't block *any* ports (80 or 25 for example, which are HTTP and SMTP respectively)
Though, for the future, you could get away with dumping the output of a dir command to a text file, and do so on a schedule.
naively, I assumed there would be some intelligence in the backup cloud service to know which files where missing, and having to redownload the entire lot could prove to be a pain, I say spend the extra dough on some 2.5" drives and store them in a fire/water proof box and/or safety deposit box.
regarding the data caps, I was shocked to learn I had used 50gb's of data in sept. Aug and Oct where in the 15-20GB range, I was planning a trip to Disney, and watched one youtube video after another, but honestly, I was shocked at the 50GB still, that just seems excessive, considering I don't have any streaming services. I'll stick with comcrap, as they have the most reliable connection (dsl/ and fiber are the only other options), I've standardized on the ceton tuner so I'm locked in to their cable service.
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This is really an interesting topic, haven't thought about this in regards to how cloud storage works. And I just got a message from Comcast, lucky me, in my market they are going to start limiting your data usage to 300gb per month, and charge an additional $10 per 50gb's, so if you have to do a large restore, plus the costs of your ISP, online backup, at least for me are becoming less and less appealing.
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Hello,
Is DrivePool compatible with antivirus software on Windows Server 2012 Essentials? Specifically wondering about AVG Fileserver Edition as it seems reasonably priced, but I am also curious about AV software in general. This is for my home server with one large 12.7TB pool with duplication enabled.
Thanks
A lot of us are running Eset NOD32 antivirus (not the security suite), it's one of the few that actually lists WHS 2011 as a supported OS, WSE 2012 is not listed, but I believe Christopher, one of the mod's for this site is running it on his box with WSE 2012. I know he'll respond as soon as he see's the post, and check newegg's weekly emails, you can get it for as low as $10.
Edit-Ok, here's a link to an earlier post, he is using the Eset file Server edition.
On other thing to mention I tried using Comodo AV, when I first built my WHS 2011 server, and had some issues with drive pool, seems every time I would highlight a file in windows explorer, the file modification date would change, very funky. Was killing my backup's, lol. didn't bother trouble shooting, just switch to ESET.
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Hi,
SMART is reporting an imminent failure, but I can't see what it is:
I have StableBit Scanner installed.
Any ideas.
Thanks
could be the S.M.A.R.T. Attribute: End-to-End error, note it's at the lowest value.
http://kb.acronis.com/content/9119
your power on time is 2 years, 251 days, that's pretty good for a desktop drive.
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Well, with defragmentation, it's "set and forget" what you want out of the product?
I've certainly forgot.
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I know if I format a 4tb drive NTFS it will only show 2tb so if I format it GPT can I add it to my pool or will Drivepool not see GPT drives?
Thanks,
bman1096
GPT drives work just fine.
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Though, one thing I'm not seeing that Auslogic's Disk Defrag has is a "fragmentation shield". And what I mean by that, is a filter that prevents fragmentation of new files. And while that may be arguable useful... (but then again, people still argue the merrits of defragging in the first place)...
yeah, I completely forgot about that, here's the 411 on PD's Optiwrite. http://blog.raxco.com/2012/08/27/optiwrite-fragmentation-prevention-that-doesnt-sacrifice-system-speed/,
I never actually gave this feature much thought, just have it all setup under "stealth patrol".
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Yep, I'm all about free software, and I liked that there was a portable option, but I've been running Perfect disk since whs V1, which had dashboard integration, and while their is a still a whs 2011 version, it runs from your desktop (RDP), and the upgrade cost me maybe $10 or $15 I don't recall, but I'll keep this guy in mind for my desktop.
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no worries, its only the OS drive that has issues, did the same thing when I was running the HP microserver. no problems with the data drives.
I forgot to mention that I've been testing Syncback Pro, and I really like this software, I'm not impressed with the user interface, but I like the fact that it's a sync software with file versioning, I have it set to hash my irreplaceable data on each backup to ensure the source and destination files are exactly the same, and if there's a problem with the hash comparison, I can address immediately. I like to ensure those files are read frequently to ensure the data is not corrupt, aswell, and exercise the HDD.
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also confirm the model number of your enclosure, the model you provided is USB 2, that could be the issue if it is USB 2.
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I am running WHS 2011 and have 4 2Tb drives in a SansDigital TR4UT-B USB 3 enclosure.
Scanner is taking > 36 hours to scan a single disk.
Is this normative? An indication of lots of disk damage? what gives
The TR4UT-B is listed as being USB 2.0/esata, TR4UT+B is listed as USB 3.0/esata, to answer your question, yeah, 36 hours is a long time for one 2TB drive on USB 3.0, for USB 2.0 that might be correct. Are the drives over heating in the enclosure? Scanner will throttle the performance back if your hitting the max temp setting, I'm not familiar with this enclosure, but if you have a manual fan control kick it up to full speed, when scanner is running. Also, if your accessing those disks for other requirements, scanner will stop until there's little to no traffic on the controller and then restart
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Ouch, on the Norton thing. And that's called successful marketing, unfortunately.
As for PerfectDisk, I keep forgetting that I'm using that as well... And yes, I think it does a good job of keeping peformance up. I also use the "SMART Placement, Performance Aggressive" option. And to be honest, it definitely makes a difference, especially on the pool. It's one of the "performance issue tweaks" I recommend for WHSv1, and it can definitely make a difference.
As for it hanging, that's... odd. I'd definitely recommend checking to see if you have any other file system filters loaded, and then contact their support
your over my head on that question, but here are the file system filters that came back.
eamonm
PDFSFilter
Luafv
DefragFS
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seems I'm late to ring in on this subject, and while it seems the decision has been made, yes folder duplication is the second reason why one would use pooling software, MS actually gotthat one right with WHS V1, and like all good ideas at MS, they dropped it and moved on to something new, MCE was another great idea from our Friends at Redmond, at least they haven't shelved this one, yet. any who.
Just like Mrbiggles said, I use folder duplication for those family pictures, family movies, personal documents, etc.
I do use multiple pools as well, I don't want to use my primary pool, which has mostly static data, to become fragmented with my recorded TV archive for example, which changes daily. I have a second pool for recorded TV.
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In part because it's a way to generate more interaction on the forum here, and because it's come up a few times...
A couple of pieces of software I highly recommend (well, aside from DrivePool and Scanner, that is):
- Subsonic:
It's media streaming software. It has a "standalone" version and "WAR" version that you can install on your server (or desktop) so you can stream your music and video to the web. Or even to your mobile device. It works great with DrivePool, as well. It does require a yearly subscription for the video, and the app support, but it's dirt cheap.
Personally, I use a fork of it called "Madsonic", as it's much more actively developed (more than one update a year).
- ESET:
I use this on all of my computers. I've been a long time supporter of the company and love their product. In fact, I have it installed on my server (Server 2012 Essentials), though I am using the "ESET File Server" edition. It's cheap, and has all the features that you'd want for a file server. Otherwise, NOD32 works great on all desktop Windows versions, as well as Windows Home Server.
Their licensing is also "version independent", so you can look for a cheap copy of an older version, and update to the newest version out. It is a good, cheap way to get multiple PCs protected. And it also uses Windows PE to create an offline scanner.
I use eset AV as well, and if you are patient, you can pick it up for $10, my mom, poor soul purchased Norton from their website and spent $70 on their product, well she got a new computer recently, and Newegg had a deal on the Eset security suite, $10, and now she thinks its not as good as the Norton. Even though her old PC, got a virus, and she was too impatient to wait for me to resolve the issues, and she spent another $75 at a computer shop to fix the virus issue, and they still didn't fix the problem. lol.
I'm also using Raxco Perfect Disk Defrag, I had this on my HP MSS, and the upgrade was cheap, so what the heck. Seems to work well, but it often hangs on the OS drive for some reason, if set to smartplacement, changing to consolidation and letting it run a couple times, and then changing back to smartplacement, seems to clear it up. Is it better then the built in defrag in WHS 2011? no idea.
- Subsonic:
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If you install the drivePool software on another computer, it has a drop down that lets you select another computer. So you can manage to pool from your desktop, without having to open the dashboard.
But if you're using WHS2011, then v1.x may be a better choice still.
Ah, yeah, the remote option makes sense, at least prior to the dashboard integration, other wise the only option was RDP.
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dbailey, that's your choice. Though v2 is in RC, which means it's almost completely stable.
One thing that v2 really does add is the remote control option.
I'll give it a go my my test rig, HP N40L, I'm not even sure what the remote control option is, I'll check that out, but seems V1 is still the better option for WHS 2011 based on what's mentioned above.
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As far as WSS is concerned (WHS 2011, WSS 2012 and R2), 2.0 doesn't fully replace 1.X. We will continue to rev 1.X for time being. In fact, there should be a new version of 1.X coming up in the next few weeks.
In short, for now 1.X is targeted at WHS 2011 users (and similar).
So what doesn't 2.X support? In particular 2.X doesn't support the following for WSS (which 1.X does):
- No Dashboard notifications.
- No WSSX installer.
- It doesn't understand server backup disks and OS partitions and will allow you to add them to the pool.
So in short, 1.X was deeply optimized for the WSS platform, while 2.X was optimized for the standard Windows platform.
Yes, with time 2.X will become a 100% replacement for 1.X, but for now we will maintain both versions.
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As far as what's next for StableBit DrivePool in general, well it's something really exciting, but I can't really say any more than that
thanks for the clarification and responding to my post , I've been thinking about upgrading to V2, once a stable version was released, guess I'll stay where I am with Version 1. Looking forward to what comes next.
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I may have missed the memo, but what's the road map for version 2, now since it has dash board integration with WHS 2011, and other variants, is the idea here for V2 to ultimately replace V1? Seems that would be the logical path from stablebit, once there's a final, stable release, doesn't make much sense to continue supporting two Rev's of the product for the same platform.
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I guess I was really asking about your mobile OS of choice, I'm a complete Noob when it comes to cell phones, couldn't tell you the difference between and HTC or a Samsung Note but I figured you'd have a windows phone. I had a company issued Iphone at my previous company, but didn't do much with it, now I'm going to try actually use it to make my life easier, and maybe play some Temple Run. hence this post.