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    I deleted a directory with file placement rules

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    I had file placement rules on all the directories below movies (iso, mkv, tester)

    DrivePool D:\movies\iso
    DrivePool D:\movies\mkv
    DrivePool D:\movies\tester

    I deleted tester before I removed file placement rules.  Now in the drivepool UI > File Placement, when I try and show directories under movies, I get the error "Unable to Enumerate Folder access is denied".

    Write Performance Question (multi pool vs. file placement)

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    Happy Drivepool user here.  Have 40TB raw.  Currently Drivepool is my home "production".

     

    Drivepool is about to become backup for Freenas.  I"m looking for ways to increase the throughput moving data from Freenas to Drivepool across 10GbE.

     

    Consider these two hypothetical scenarios. Will either of these allow two copy jobs in parallel to write at the speed of two disks?  Assuming a single disk will sequential write at 150MB, I'm looking to write at 300MB.

     

    SCENARIO 1 - single pool with two folders

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    Pool Z with 4 disks

    File placement options set for /ISO folder to use disk 1,2

    File placement options set for /MKV folder to use disk 3,4.

     

     

    SCENARIO 2 - two pools each having 1 folder

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    Pool Y with 2 disks storing /ISO

    Pool Z with 2 disks storing /MKV

    How much Parallelism?

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    Lets say I have 4 drives connected through SAS to the pool and I have no duplication turned on.  The files in the pool are all 40GB ISO files.

     

    Now I add 4 more identical drives to the pool via SAS.  ( I know drivepool doesn't care how they are connected)

     

    Now I turn on 2x duplication.

     

    Will Stablebit drivepool copy 1 file at a time?

     

    Maybe it ends up doing 4 copies at the same time because it has 4 disks to read from and 4 to write to?

    Subpools or Drive Groups Within a Pool

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    Hmm monitoring a problem at the moment.

     

    Pool Duplication is enabled on Pool C, I had a look at folder duplication on Pool C, set the $Recycle.bin to 1x and then noticed the unduplicated data growing. Rechecked the folder duplication and random folders were set to 1x. Tried changing a single folder back to 2x and got a task failed error. Disabled pool duplication, enabled it again and rebooted the server and checked folder duplication is all now 2x. It now seems to be duplicating the data again.

    A simple solution for what you want would be to disable all duplication within drivepool and use a separate program to sync the two pools, thereby achieving the redundancy.

     

    I'll be doing this with a program I've been using for years to backup PC's to a NAS, http://www.smartsync.com/

     

    The only downside I can see here is you won't get the read boost if drivepool isn't doing the duplication.

    Subpools or Drive Groups Within a Pool

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    It's in the beta version, but this feature is very, very new. It may still have bugs (probably does). And we know that the UI needs an overhaul to handle things better, as this will get cause the UI to get complicated, fast.

     

    But if you want to go ahead and test it out, by all means, do so.  Just let us know if you run into any issues with it. 

    http://dl.covecube.com/DrivePoolWindows/beta/download/?C=N;O=D

     

    Grab the 2.2.0.744 or 2.2.0.745 build, and give it a spin.

    Understood.  Retaining elegance as flexibility increases is, um, hard.

    Not sure I am using this new feature but are there any recommendations as to what features should be enabled/disabled?

     

    My setup

    Sata card 1, 7 disks, Pool A, no duplication

    Sata card 2, 7 disks, Pool B, no duplication

     

    Pool A + Pool B = Pool C, with duplication enabled so two copies of all files on each sata card.

     

    I have changed a disk in Pool B and it is balancing at the moment, I think this is causing issues with Duplication on Pool C as it starts runs finishes and starts again. Should I turn balancing off on Pool A & B as it really isn't required, or just let it all work itself out over time?

    I don't have any answer for you because I'm new here.

     

    But I'm curious, is your intent to have 1 copy of each file in pool A and 1 copy in pool B?  Thats why I want the feature.  I want my duplication to happen across interfaces for speed.

     

    This statement makes me unclear "two copies of all files on each sata card"

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