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Spider99

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  1. Can we have an option to control the bits verified/pooled etc as its a bit hard to judge as such a huge number

    could we have bytes and MB,GB and TB etc to make the number a bit more readable?

  2. one other thing

    the speed of the read will be dependant on where on the disk the file is located

    as its a disk the speed of the read will be faster when the file is on the outside of the disk vs the inside (near spindle) 

    so an empty disk will preform near the quoted speed of the disk as files are added to the outside first

    and a full disk with a new file added will go to the inside....

    thats simplified as other factors can influence where a new file gets written e.g. you have just deleted a load of files before the new write etc etc

  3. i use veeam to backup the server os drive and any non pool drives

    i use SyncBackPro to backup my pool - has millions of options - but i backup pool a to pool b - simple mirror (overwrites, deletes or copies new files etc) - basic a set and forget option

    I also get it to do a backup to my QNAP nas once a week - across my network (10g) and it runs as fast as the dp disks can provide the data

    if it has an issue when running - it will pop up a html report on the server - something you cant miss - for me its usually i have removed/renamed something while it was running

    possibly the free version of syncback maybe enough - but i bought it a while ago and it works very well with DP

  4. 2012r2 and scanner work fine - picks up bad sectors - when the scan is run/or when smart reports it

    but its not going to find dead drive sectors in real time - if thats what you want - don't think anything does that - as it would kill the drives in weeks/months as you would have to read each sector - again and again

    maybe you need better backup software that does a hash check / compares the files before it overwrites?

  5. i would go with option 1 - as you only have two drives with duplication so they are the "same" - does not matter which one you choose - vss will not be copied etc

    3 - would work but will be slower than 1

    2 - avoid cloning liable to give you problems

    and yes - shut down any service thats writing to the pool before you start - more for maintaining the best speed

    internal copy will be approx 1TB per 3 hrs - give or take - remember speed will vary by files size (lots of small files very slow) (large files quick) and where the data is on the disk - i suspect that the new 8TB will be quicker than the 4TB so the speed will depend on the 4TB disk....

  6. ok you dont have them mounted to a folder (option in windows so they dont appear with drive letter) - so we can scratch that idea

    just a guess - but do you have any symlinks or hardlinks set - that might point to the c/d drives that lightroom might see and follow?

    If you can add another drive via usb to laptop (not to the pool) and scan that with lightroom does it jump to the c/d drives as well? - if it does its not  a dp issue

  7. "other" is any file it does consider part of the pool - so very much the problem the op had even if permissions related

    if the files were "ok" then they would have been part of the pool

    unicode is double byte characters to support non ascii characters - umlauts etc and windows/Dp supports those already

  8. remeasure can take a long time - hour or so on my 64tb pools  - depending on speed of disks and the number of files - more files longer it will take.

    if DP - does not like a file it puts it in the "other" category (box) as its not considered part of the pool

    The user that DP runs under needs to have rights to all the files in the pool - ownership/read/write etc - i.e. full access - why did you change them - did you have an issue or did you do it anyway?

    if you have reset them maybe they did not get copied to each sub folder and file - or when you copied the files to the pool or when you created the pool they had old permissions which are conflicting and causing DP issues. Look in the DP log are you seeing permission errors or any errors?

     

  9. UmFriend is correct Plex only sees what DP presents to it as it sees the pool drive (virtual) and not the disks

    if a drive fails then the "other" copy is used so Plex or any app carries on as normal if you have duplication on. As for the streaming error - could be a number of reasons - one of which is the file was damaged by the disk failure or the disk was removed and plex then could not find the file.......

    If you have read striping on you can see in DP that it uses both disks at various times when presenting a file to application X - this does not radically change the speed of the read but if one disk slows (as other files are also being accessed at the same time on one disk) the other will be used etc etc. The speed of the read is the speed of the disk being used - no magic here.

    Basically if you want redundancy then you need more space for the duplication or be selective in which shows you duplicate - but you will need more space at some point.

     

  10. i think the "other" is part of your problem - if all the files are in the poolpart dir and nothing other than system vol info is outside the poolpart the other is files it is having an issue with so puts them in the other box.

    try a remeasure of the pool - that might improve things and sort out the inconsistent situation - everything will go to other initially - dont panic! :) 

    another thing to check - are the permissions correct on those drives with other - i.e. does dp and the user its running under have rights to those files/folders etc

  11. the plugins can fight against each other so to test only have one enabled related to equalising the drive space

    (i dont bother with this as its just moving the deck chairs on the titanic and although its nice to see equal space used/unused per disk - it does not achieve much of anything and means a lot of extra copying and moving just to achieve this - does not speed up drives etc)

    run it for a day or so so you understand what it does and how the options affect the result

    rinse and repeat with the others

    then try combinations

    etc

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