[invalid serial on every system restart]

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.

 

 

[Find out what is "unduplicated"?]

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

[NTFS / other drive compression.]

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

[NTFS / other drive compression.]

 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.

 

[Off-Site Incremental backup solution?]

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.

[Migrate from Drive Bender to Drive Pool?]

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'll install it again later]

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.

 

[blue screen on PNP service detect.]

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

[blue screen on PNP service detect.]

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.