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  1. Chris To kick off - (not done a search to see if this has come up before) Initial idea (1) In scanner you have the volume map option which is OK but could be a whole lot more useful So what could be different - Have a look at http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html it looks very similar but is deceptively simple. Also it could be enhanced to add some missing features The major difference is the display is live and you can interact with it etc plus the filters are very useful and you can use colour coding (although this could be more useful with extra options) Labels for file date etc are also very handy Its a live interface to in that it will update as you change the files/click through to lower directories/ separate windows ..... If this or something similar could be added to Scanner/DP it would make a huge difference to whole experience as you would have the start of an analytical addon family.......
  2. i'm back will post my first request in a new thread
  3. lol it did cross my mind but MS would not be that stupid!
  4. has anybody not partnered with plex recently? cant wait for the first muppet to get caught uploading his hooky movie collection to the cloud getting his collar felt by the fuzz have pop corn ready
  5. yes a nice 5 year warranty if you can get it - means any problems you get a new (or refurb) drive noticed some of the newer Seagate are only coming with 3 yrs for enterprise drives - poor deal yes rule of thumb i use is - if they last 6 months they usually last a good long time but after 3-4 years - you have either run out of space or some humongous drive is now available for silly money before they all ware out i see a 60TB SSD for enterprise has appeared ($10k) - if they last you can say good by to mechanical drives in 3-5 years - so much easier to add another chip or two of memory than cram another platter into a 3.5 hdd case then we will be moaning about memory chip life
  6. Ok if i understand you you have snap raid with drivepool on "top" and a separate parity drive once you have the beta loaded you should be able to do what you want easy way to tell if its the pool drive is the size which should be about ~9TB in explorer you should see you c: v: and possibly the parity drive (but i would guess not) i did not see the v:\ issue as i always have a top level directory m:\Mulitmedia then sub directories below that \Movies \Music etc - root drives can be a bit picky sometimes Question - why parity over duplication or are you going to do duplication as well?
  7. Ha sounds like a challenge scratches head and rubs chin i will be back
  8. the way i did it was create the pool the same way you did (you dont have to even mount the drives if you dont want to or assign them a letter) once pool configured for size/dup etc create a share folder on the pool drive - i.e. treat the drivepool drive V: as if it were a real drive - to the system it is so v:\test this is then visible across your network - robocopy should be able to see the share and if you have your permissions correct - copy across some data to the test directory the data should appear in V:\test\HD..... in reality its in C:\DrivePoolArray\DRUX\poolpart\test\HD - hopefully being duplicated across your other drives the difference i think is you have bypassed the drivepool drive by pointing robocopy directly to the physical drive See how you go with that
  9. Chris https://duplicacy.com/issue?id=5766466041282560 Interesting to see that Amazon like making friends with other suppliers to.....
  10. Ha yes well if others woke up and stopped moaning and provided there own data - with proper analysis that the average non stats geek can understand people might get a better understanding of a) data use - most peopl cant analyse data for toffee - although to here them talk - choose the right HDD/SDD for your situation
  11. Ok but others would not see them? Was thinking others could say "like" a feature or disagree etc
  12. Chris unless i have missed it where do we send feature requests/suggestions/ideas/mad ideas/wishlists/parallel universe ideas/ etc There does not appear to be a sub forum for them
  13. I've had similar problems and am running (just installed a few minutes ago) a new beta for DP rather than scanner i had issues with DP when balancing (or scanner doing a burst test) it would crash but this was traced to two things a bug found in DP and that i had a duff controller card which i have just installed its replacement i eventually traced my issue to the controller buy running burn in as 1,2,3 drives were fine but add a fourth and would crash within 15 minutes which was repeatable - the second controller runs 8 drives no problem The things i suggested are some of the process i went through to try and eliminate aspects/hardware I was getting obscure error messages - as having two controllers of the same model and make - with the error messages not being specific - it was guess work for a while trying to figure out which controller had the issue Nailed it in the end and crossed fingers the new beta and the new controller play nice Good Luck
  14. does it lockup without the Vm's running? are the vm files in or out of the pool? are all you drivers for your hdd controller(s) up to date? are they from you motherboard manufacturer or did you get them from the chip maker? disable windows defender disable drive pool and just run scanner - any difference? disable both scanner and DP - run http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm - as a trial it will only run for 15 mins but helped find a very difficult obscure bug for me - do the read test on the disks all of them at once does it fall over now? double check your cable connections for all pc components re-seat all you ram do a memtest86 run see if that gets you an answer
  15. ha yes they do get people going - think its part Marketing and part tweaking the established player especially "you dont need nas/enterprise" drives for 24/7 usage - when most of their drives do very little everyday in comparison to a company files server etc
  16. Interesting article from backBlaze on SMART info Not definitive but interesting Wish they would learn how to present stats and % properly as it makes it difficult to figure out what the numbers mean! https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/
  17. yep thats fine i have done it on mine you can mount them to a NTFS folder - so you can get at them separately or not mount them at all - although access to the disk directly does become more difficult if you do drive pool uses the unc path so does not care about how windows "names" them
  18. Posted a support call https://stablebit.com/Contact/2940692
  19. Getting closer to the problem i think I decided to re balance the pool with the Disk Space Equalised before copying back the directories i moved out of the pool (reverse quick and dirty) This appears to be working fine So i got bored and decided to push my luck a bit So i picked a small directory of a 4k files and about 300MB and moved it to the pool - this worked fine and balancing continued with no lock ups So i got bolder and moved a large directory of 16k files and 4GB - this failed to even start and DP died as well (reboot tried and failed - hard reset again) - it also left one disk at 100% utilisation according to task manager - dont know if this was the disk the files were potentially going to or the disk DP was writing to at the time of the crash as at that time was not using resource monitor to see what was going on in the background. Nothing in the error log - empty To me at the moment - its looking like a conflict between DP and a driver or DP chokes on a large numbers of files Either way its a bit wierd that i am not getting error messages - so i could track back to something i might be able to change/repair etc There are errors in the event log in windows but i think those are all to do with the corrupt bios but can export them if you think you need them Errors for DP/Scanner/VDS Provider/VDS and a few for the RocketRaid HBA So Chris how would you like to proceed?
  20. Well knock me down with a tribble its working well at least its done a full balance with no reported errors Two things i changed this morning 1) cleared out the Drivepool>Service directory - so i would have fresh config and new error logs 2) Removed out of the pool the directory containing circa 500k of files in multiple directories Restarted the service and it completed Couple of things i noticed a) the re balance was going significantly quicker in terms of % complete ~ 0.1% every couple of seconds - i only moved out about 1.5TB so the pool still has 17.3TB of data to balance the data was being written at a slower pace ~180MB/s rather than the 250+ of last night - might be a red herring but odd So i am going to put back some of the removed data to see if it chokes again and will report back
  21. Well we are back to Drivepool crashing @ 0.8% I was watching its progress and there was a system pause (lockup for a few seconds) then the file copying came to a halt not long after and i left it for 20 minutes with no more disk activity and minimal cpu usage The Drivepool service cannot be stopped or terminated and eventually the system has crashed again Looking at the logs it has not written anything of note - no errors just stops working - last log update approx 19:50 crashed after that point Sigh T
  22. Thanks Chris Well a fun day of testing has i think got to the bottom of this - a corrupt BIOS which may have occurred during one of the hard reboots - having a dual bios motherboard helps along with spare RAM to prove the original ram was fine which was my initial suspicion. The system is back up and booting properly now (cross fingers) have managed to get it to un-duplicate the files it had done which worked fine. I am now running the re- balance to see if it will actually work this time and move the data across all (or most) of the disks. Lots of CPU activity on Drivepool Service and System although minimal disk activity so far and balancing is not showing any % complete yet but i guess its working out what to move where. Ah ha we have data movement but no activity on the pool (Is that correct???) % changed to a massive 0.1% Well the data appears to be being moved - although no activity on the pool being shown - @ 200MB/s - 280MB/s Now at @ 0.5% if it gets past 3.8% then we will have moved on as that was the max i have seen previously Yes i'm on 711 as tried that as an option to help with the lockups Win 10 Pro 64bit Anniversary Update Tim
  23. Well not having any luck getting a balanced pool - drivepool just "hangs" at 0.7% for hours with no file movement - it did initially move files at upto 250MB/s but after a few minutes this stopped with no more disk activity. I think its crashing because you cant shut down the pc and have to hard reset on reboot the same thing happens tried this 4-5 times any ideas as to what to try/change?
  24. Well i copied all the data to five disks via USB3 and have now just used the quick and dirty method to add the data to the pool - works a treat One thing though the i think http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q2299585Bneeds updating as i could not find any troubleshooting section to reset the options As it turned out setting the ssd cache kicked things into life Drivepool is digesting 18TB of data at the moment - not much happening but i have just given it the best part of 1M files to figure out - will leave it to get on with it and turn on duplication later
  25. Hi i'm new to this as well - but the thought that comes to mind is that the backup is a single file and you dont have enough space on two drives to hold the single file. So i suspect the out of disk space warning is when one of the drives with very low space fills up as MR probably does not reserve the full file size initially on the system(if it did then the backup would probably fail almost immediately) because it does not know how big the backup is going to be and just incrementally expands the backup file as it goes later it will know when the process nears completion. DP therefore just decides to pick a disk and wait for the process to finish hence why you get variable completions of 20% and 40% as the "primary" or "secondary" DP disk fills up. Drive 6 looks like it has enough space but the others look to have a lot less space. If you can chop it up into more manageable pieces then I would expect it to work. Or just do an image of your system drive and do a file backup of the rest to keep the biggest file size down to something more manageable
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