kenwshmt

I have drivepool, scanner and cloud drive on a system. it didnt complain about the license until i installed scanner. I have to devalidate the drivepool number, then put it in again, every time the system is reset.

Ive had bad file names, empty file directories, make it calculate wrong.

this little tool seems to go about it faster. http://www.freewarefiles.com/FileThin-NTFS_program_61738.html

As I undo my drive bender array, and see that i dont have NTFS compression enabled on where I am putting it all, do any of you have experience with some of the ntfs compressor aps / and or things like zip magic? I'm fine with starting it ntfs compressing and run for a week. even on what it shouldnt compress i will probably get 400 gig from it, maybe more.

https://www.arqbackup.com/ ARQ going to the bottomless amazon drive, encrypted, compressed, deduped. its not fancy at all, but it works very well with drivepool. and its got a 30 day trial. $70, but its not limited up to the trial end. my only experience on advice is if you define a backup set, it goes through the motions, but doesnt actually do anything (assuming theres something to backup, there will be a total to do), delete the backup and make it again. it simply may not work from the start, so you wont be any worse for it. do a small test first... I've only used it with the amazon cloud drive, and files arnt online emediatly after upload all the time.. so if you do a backup test, wait a while before you do the restore test.

I did 2 drives with drive benders 'remove' drive.. a week later, changed the whole set in one go and am currently moving from the drivebender subdirectories on each drive into the drivepool in a propper file copy. It will still take a week to do, but importing the full disks into drivebender had many file protection problems, and probably long name problems, the copying, so far, hasnt. i'm getting about 2 TB a day this way. I am impressed how robust drivepool is, in my fidling with usb lines I've knocked drives off a few times and it put itself back in working shape very quickly. win 7, 7 drives, 12 TB.

I had it in a few places, it wasnt forgiving enough to last. I'll keep the licence and try it again later. I wound up going the circuios route of : netdrive mounted the amazon cloud drive as a local drive - I needed this functionality anyways (drive e) .. very slow caching, not fast uploading. endfs assigned to a subdirectory in that (drive u) .. endFS is glacial, with this targeted at the netdrive its twice as slow, 20 minutes to encrypt and upload a 20 meg file. dialup speeds. https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/11385/protect-cloud-storage-files-encfs/ the advantage here is its file level.. the file size is still obvios, but the names are encrypted as are the subdirectories. a failed file wont take out the virtual drive. I'm Likeing drive pool, I'm deconstructing a drivebender configuration and moving it to another system with drivepool. it seems more robust.

I did a system restore and reinstalled it, then undid the registration. I have it working on another system.

installing on a windows 7 64 system the PNP service causes a crash. I'm having difficulty getting it running enough to deregister the install. it blue screens before the uninstaller can begin.