MichaelNC

Thanks, so just to understand how the system works, do I have to copy files that were already on a disk prior to being added to a drivepool to the drivepool virtual drive or can I just move them to the drive pool directory on the local disk and drivepool would pick then pick them up as being on the drivepool dirve then? Is this supported?

I have a question regarding recovery and also adding files to the drive pool. I have an old computer acting as a second non-resilient backup with all 7 SATA ports occupied with old HDD's that I'd like to get some use out of. If a drive starts to indicate imminent failure I can't add an additional drive to the system to manage this with DrivePool. My question is could I just clone this drive in another system to a larger drive while I'm at it and then just replace the drive in the pool with this new drive? If this can be done, can this be achieved with a simple copy? Another scenario: I understand that you can add a drive to the pool that already has files on it, but as I understand those files wouldn't be accessible via the DrivePool drive and would have to be accessed directly on that disk. What would be the best way to get them added to the pool drive, do you just do a cut and paste to the pool drive and would that be a move operation since it's on the same disk or because it's going to a virtual drive result in a copy operation that would probably take significantly longer. Alternately, could you just do the move directly on the disk to the DrivePool folder to make this a move operation? Thanks in advance.