[Drivepool on new Windows install]

Thanks - heart in mouth, but in I go...

[Drivepool on new Windows install]

@Umfriend - Awesome + thanks for the quick reply. Do I also need to "remove" the drives in the WHS2011 Dashboard app? Of just do my new Windows HS install, install DrivePool and then physically re-connect the drives?

[Drivepool on new Windows install]

@Umfriend

On 1/31/2019 at 8:25 AM, Umfriend said:

Disconnect the Pooled HDDs (I am assuming that none of the HDDs also have the OS partition on it BTW)

Hi - I'm about to do a migration. When you say "Disconnect" - does this mean "Remove" the drive within StableBit application tab or physically disconnect the drive?

[Migrating the DrivePool]

I'm looking to upgrade my home server from WHS2011 to WSE2016. My understanding is that this has to be a fresh install. I have 8 HDs in my machine - 6 of which are  the pool. Duplication is on various folders. My system Drive (C:) is stand alone (no drivepool data). 

What do I have to do to make sure that all data transitions successfully and safely?

Thanks

[Pool Drives not measuring correctly?]

Thanks for your support yesterday, Christopher. Did what you suggested and removed the F: drive, installing a new 3tb drive just before. This morning, re-measured pool and I'm afraid the results were a little surprising:

 

 

Obviously, this is very wrong - just hoping all my files are still OK!

 

Would appreciate yours or Alex's further guidance on this. On another note, I've got a server upgrade planned to install 2 more hard drives. I'm guessing I should hold off on this until the issues with Drivepool are sorted?

 

thanks

Steve

 

EDIT: Oh wait! This might be right? I see the measures are Duplicated/non-duped vs pooled/non-pooled as of old version. Guessing this might be accurate, then?

[Pool Drives not measuring correctly?]

Remote may be good. Did all of the above and still no joy. Also, now running out of disk space. Think got about 6TB of disk aspace and 4TB of files, but 3rd disk is showing as full. 

 

F contained hidden server folders files. 

 

Pic of present state of play:

 

 

Let me know how the remote business works + thanks

[Pool Drives not measuring correctly?]

Thanks. I did the remeasure in the OP - made no difference. Presently re-balancing - we'll see how things sit after this + I'll try re measuring again. 

 

When you say check the disk itself - what do you mean? If I click on the pool drive in explorer it shows no files. 

 

All else fails - i'll do chkdisk

 

Just to check something out. I have 3 x 2TB drives. If I have 1.8TB of data and it's duplicated, will this essentially only exist on 2 drives (1.8 on one and 1.8 on another) rather than being spread across 3 drives?

 

If so - it's looking alike all the data is on G + E. If all else fails - could I reformat F: and re-add it to the pool?

 

thanks for your help.

[Pool Drives not measuring correctly?]

Hi folks,

 

I've recently had to upgrade to a new server. All's gone well in terms of re-installing + initialising SBDP. However, the Pool Drives look a bit funny:

 

 

You'll note F: is just grey. I've done "Remeasure" but still grey. Wierd thing is it's showing as 78.7% full! Also - checked disk - no SMART errors. Seems clean.

 

Other info:

 

 

Any ideas? Should I worry?

[How to move folder to the pool?]

Thanks. It was huge - around 1TB. Happily - it was also just a grab of other hard disks across the system. Decided to delete it and just reload it once added to the pool via Dashboard. 

[How to move folder to the pool?]

Hi folks,

 

Apologies - done a bit of a search, but couldn't find it (could find for a drive). I don't know how I managed it, but have a shared folder outside of the pool ("Arcade"):

 

 

How do I get it 'into' the pool?

 

On WHS 2011

 

thanks