Christopher (Drashna)
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You should have no issues running all of our software on Windows Server 2022
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Also, keep in mind that you add pools to pools. So you can use CloudDrive still, but add that drive, *and* the pool into another pool. That may be a bit easier to manage.
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StableBit DrivePool doesn't remove empty folders, for a number of reasons. If you want, you can manually clean up the empty folders.
As for prevent rclone, if it can, have it check if the pool is writable first. If there is a missing disk, the pool goes read only until the missing disk is resolved.
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does the enclosure have an activity light? If so, that can be used.
Otherwise, check the disk details and it will show the drives serial number.
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It's part of StableBit Cloud, not CloudDrive (sorry for the confusing naming).
And yeah, you'd need to sign up for an account.
Right now, it's still in beta, so it's completely free. But we do plan on offering it as a subscription based service. However, I do believe that we plan on having a free tier, though.
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Sounds like a good plan then.
Also, you may not need to split the drive. You can add it to the pool, and still use it for downloading or what not.
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We have a number of people using Windows 11 already, but we won't say that it's officially supported until Windows 11 is no longer a beta. This is because the OS is in too much flux until it's RTM'ed, and takes a lot of work to officially support it before then.
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Yup, that looks normal.
Specifically, new files are placed on the disks with the most available free space. So the 8 TB drives won't be used until the 14+ TB drives are filled enough to have the same amount of free space as the small drives.
That said, the "Drive Space Equalizer" balancer plugin can be installed and enabled, and this will forcibly rebalance the data so that all of the drives are being equally used.
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No, and that's intentional. Having an option to do that would definitely lead to "why is all my data gone" type issues. And people getting very upset about that.
And ideally, you want to move the data off of the pool. So you can remove the disks from the pool, normally.
If you want to destroy the pool, that can be done manually, which is ideal since it's not a simple thing to do.
That said, you can use "dpcmd ignore-poolpart" on all of the disks and that will remove the pool.
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I'm sorry to hear that, and that is very unusual. If you could, open a ticket.
That said, the latest version does have a backup/restore option, and that should work.
Also, the beta versions have StableBit Cloud sync, which should prevent them from being lost, as well.
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Depends on your use case. If you're reading a lot more than writing, than primoCache may be a better idea.
Personally, I use SSD Optimizer, because I download a lot. New files go to the SSDs, and then are moved onto SMR drives. It works VERY well for me.
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Could you make sure that you're on the latest beta version (1285, IIRC), and see if that helps.
If not, could you open a ticket at https://stablebit.com/Contact?
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It doesn't provide any storage, but uses existing storage you have with various providers. Also, it doesn't expose the files on the providers, but rather creates a virtual drive that is stored on those providers.
That said, all of our software comes with a 30 day, fully featured trial period. i'd definitely recommend checking out the software, even if it ends up not being for you.
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well, you can run "dpcmd ignore-poolpart" to immediately eject a disk from the pool, and mark it as removed. This prevents the drive from being used by the pool, and does NOT move the files off of it.
But yeah, just disconnecting the disk and then reconnecting the drive will cause it to show back up in the pool, if you didn't remove the hidden "PoolPart" folder.
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Glad to hear it!
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You should be fine, here. If you use the "duplicate data later" option, it will skip the duplicate date, and should remove the drive pretty much immediately.
Connect a new drive and add it to the pool, and it will reduplicate the data to the new drive.
The old drive will still have the data on it, so worst case, you have a spare set of the files, just in case.
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Okay, Alex has taken a look at the API changes, and how we have things set up.
QuoteAs per the email: "Items that have a Drive API permission with type=domain or type=anyone, where withLink=true (v2) or allowFileDiscovery=false (v3), will be affected by this security update."
This part being the key here. The type we use is "sure", so StableBit CloudDrive should NOT be effected by this change.
The exception here may be with chunks that are shared. They may become inaccessible after this change.
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For replacing disks in the pool, it depends on how much free space you have. But ideally, you want to remove the disk from the Pool using the "remove" option in the UI. This will safely remove the drive from the pool, and you can then disconnect the drive and connect the new drive.
And yeah, if the drives are out of warranty, it may be a good idea to replace them.
And removing the drives won't necessarily move the data to the gold drives. That depends entirely on the setup of your pool(s).
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If a couple of the disks are having problems, it could potentinally cause this to happen, unfortunately.
Disconnecting those drives may improve the startup time and performance, in general.
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Mostly, the only way to get that space back is to zero out the unused space on the drive. There isn't a good way to do so after the fact, but "sdelete" can do so with existing files.
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will confirm that there shouldn't be any performance impact. But that is a "it depends" sort of thing. If you have antivirus software installed or certain disk tools, then they can cause an increasing impact, the more more layers there are. But this should be minimal, as this is all handled in the kernel.
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I don't believe that this is an issue for us, but I've passed it along, just in case.
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Well, I'm glad to hear that you were able to get it resolved, but sorry to hear about all the troubles.
The first error may have been fixed by this:
https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_F3540The second error, "0x80070643", is definitely the "pending reboot" error code.
Also, just a heads up, WHS2011 and Windows Server 2008R2 (which it is based on) is outside of extended support for Microsoft. You likely won't get any automatic updates, past the official end of support date.
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That specific error indicates that there is a pending reboot. Try rebooting the system, and try again.
If that still has issues, try the Microsoft Installer fixit tool.
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Are you accessing the pool over the network, or directly?
And does this happen with any of the disks in that pool, as well?