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    Drivepool and Scanner license warnings

    in General

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    Hello, I have a disk server with licensed copies of Drivepool and Scanner installed,
    no problems running the services on the licensed disk server.

    However, in order to have remote control of Drivepool and Scanner, I have have installed non-licensed copies of Drivepool and Scanner
    on my laptop.

    Everytime a restart of the laptop I get a Windows notification "Stablebit Scanner licensing needs your attention".
    And on Drivepool, if I select my laptop in the computer dropdown, I get a warning "TRIAL EXPIRED" Activate a retail license"

    As I have understood, a remote control computer does not need a license.

    Is there a way to disable any one of these warnings, preferably both?

    regards

    Per Åkesson

    Drivepool new disk

    in General

    Posted

    Hello,

    one of my 8 TB disk got unreadable sectors so I had it removed after DP evacuated data to other disks. So the other disks got rather full and I get warnings.

    Now I have added a new 8 TB disk to the pool.

    Will DP automatically even out my data to the new disk?

    So I don't get warnings of full disks?

    Thanks in advance

    Per

    Can not manage folders

    in General

    Posted

    Hello, it seems I can not manage my folder shares anymore. I think I have been.

    Whwn clicking the "Manage folders..." link I get a popup saying "Error switching to folders page", see attached screen shot.

    This is version 1.3.1.7541 on WHS 2011.

    Any help would be appreciated.

     

    Per

    folder error.png

    Balancing in version 1.3

    in General

    Posted

    Thank you, I found the balancing options with your help.

     

    In order to minimize disk writing when adding a new (empty) disk, should I disable the Volume Equalization balancer?

     

    Will the effect be that the drives are filled in order, one by one?

     

    Per

     

    EDIT: I'm asking because I think I remember last time I added disks, data was moved from old disks to the new one(s),

    in order to have them all filled equally, (but I am not sure).

    External storage suggestions

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Dear all,

     

    my chassi is full, no more drive bays nor SATA ports, so I have to expand my storage.

     

    I wonder if someone could advice me how to expand my storage.

     

    What technology should I use? (eSATA)

     

    What controller card?   It's a requirement to obtain SMART data to StableBit Scanner.

     

    External closure? (4 - 8 bays)

     

    My motherboard has 2 free PCI Express x16 and 1 PCI Express x4.

     

    Thanks in advance,

     

    Per

    Keeping a record of what's on each disk?

    in General

    Posted

    I just tried the tree command, and it seems that it doesn't lists hidden directories,

    so you have to specify the full PoolPart directory name.

     

    I have a small batch file that lists my mounted drives with the DIR /S /B command each day.

    It works with hidden directories.

     

    Per

    Measurement on overview tab

    in General

    Posted

    Hello,

     

    suddenly the overview tab is measuring my pool incorrect:

     

    Namnl_s.jpg

     

    I have tried remeasured and restarted the DrivePool service, still wrong.

     

    In the pool tab it is correct.

     

    How can I correct this?

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    Per

    Any recommendation advice on the new Seagate 8 TB SMR drive for Drive pool?

    in General

    Posted

     

    Though, one thing here. If you're going to be using a lot of larger files (eg, not pictures, but videos/ISOs/etc), then I would highly recommend formatting the drive and setting the Allocation Unite size to 64k. 

     

     

    Hello,

     

    just bought myself a Seagate 8 TB Archive disk. Just wondering about changing the default allocation unit size to 64k.

     

    Would a single small file use one allocation unit? Or could several small files share an allocation unit?

     

    I am asking since (my) video library consist of large (video) files together with small meta data files (.nfo, .jpg ..)

     

    Would you still recommend an allocation unit size of 64k?

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    Per

    Shares missing after reinstall

    in General

    Posted

    Also, I would recommend not sharing the "D:\" drive at all. Unless you have a very good reason.

    And that is because, by default, Windows creates an "administrative" share for each of the drives, which you can find by using "\\SERVERNAME\d$\"

     

    Ah, I didn't know that, then I'll try to use \\SERVER\D$\ instead.

     

    Per

    Shares missing after reinstall

    in General

    Posted

    Well, I'm glad to hear that at least.

     

    As for the issue, there are a few things that could have caused this issue though.

    When it was "not working", was it just displaying that in the dashboard? Or where the shares completely inaccessible from another system? 

    If it was just the dashboard, then the issue is with the "Windows Home Server Storage Manager" service, and not DrivePool or the Shared folders specifically.

     

    In fact, if you could grab, zip up and send me the entire "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Server\Logs" folder, I will take a look a them to see what is going on.

    Email them to me at "christopher@covecube.com".

     

     

    Thanks for looking into this.

     

    Yes in fact it was just showing "missing" in the Dashboard but all clients could access the shares.

     

    But as I said suddenly the showed up in the Dashboard and all pointing to my Drivepool, so it "fixed" itself.

    .

     

    But... I still have a Dashboard warning "One or more pre-defined server folders are missing"

    but it doesn't says which one. 

     

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    I email you the logs when I get back from work.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    Per

    Shares missing after reinstall

    in General

    Posted

    Hello again,

     

    somehow mysteriously it fix itself,

     

    the shares show up in Dashboard and are accessible from clients.

    I cannot say I did anything obvious to fix it.

     

    Strange, consider it case closed.

     

    Thanks anyway.

     

    Per

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