Christopher (Drashna)

Unfortunately, sometimes when you add a new drive, Windows gets stupid, and can bump the drive letters. That sounds like EXACTLY what has happened here.
 
The easy way to fix this is with the "WSS Troubleshooter" utility. DOwnload it, and run the "rebuild DrivePool Shares" option. This will change the shared folders to match the new drive letter.
http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Utilities
 
 
Alternatively, if you know what letter the pool was, you can use Disk Management to reassign the letters.
http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q6811286


And to clarify, once this has been done, you may need to restart the system. 
And the client backups and everything should come back properly. As if nothing happened, basically.

getting my 1 TB 2.5 inch WD red for the os this week and may build my pool soon after. with a 1 TB WD black and 1 TB WD green

Yeah, I had a feeling.
 
As for the data, I'm not exactly sure what you mean there, or where your data is already located.
However, we do have a "seeding" guide, which may be what you are looking for (or give you enough of an idea to do what you want):
http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4142489

Bluetac,
 
It sounds like you may have accidently added each drive to a new pool.  If you rapidly clicked on the "Add" from the UI, it could do this.
 
Remove all but one of the disks from the pool. Once that's done, then add them. This should add the disks to the one pool.
 
It should look like this:

...backups are not needed, really.
 
All recordings are stripped from ads and then get stored on my NAS automagically.
The only data that comes with some hassle to reconstruct from scratch is the channel list and sorting of these into programme numbers.
But the idea with kvm is still the best...but because of the space left in the attic, I need some kvm-over-ip gear...I'll be scanning the bay ;-)
 
Again, many thanks for your support and second thoughts...I really appreciate this!

I haven't had any experience with torrenting directly to my pool, but that was a conscious decision on my part. My main pool consists of 4 disks that are only accessed for storing/retrieving VERY rarely, and they are set to go to sleep after 30 minutes. Obviously for me, I wouldn't want something like constant torrent activity keeping the drives awake (downloading, seeding, etc). So I came up with a cool way to transfer torrents only after they've been completed.  You may be asking "Why doesn't he just use the store downloading files here and completed files here option in utorrent", that wouldn't work for my setup since the completed location would be the pool, thus keeping the hard drives spun up from seeding.

uTorrent stores completed downloads to my C drive (the C drive is always on anyway). Then, an app called SyncBackPro detects the completed torrent files and copies to my pool. Afterwards, I use another app to delete the original torrent from my C drive after 2 weeks (allows for seeding to almost always finish after downloading, cause I like to seed). The 2nd app is called Belvedere, which is an app that detects file changes and can perform an action when an event is triggered. So basically, I told Belvedere to delete files/folders that are older than 2 weeks. Works great for me, especially with huge multiGB downloads! Keeps my 4 pooled disks sleeping, until the torrent is complete, and then it does its thing in the background without me having to touch a thing.

I do realize this might not help you or might be a complex setup, but I figured i'd throw in my two cents!

Strange that some people have issues with direct pool torrenting though, I'll have to test that one day.

I highly recommend SyncBackPro from 2Brightsparks for syncing. It has an awesome feature which can trigger a sync automatically when it detects a file has been changed on the source, instantly syncing to the destination afterwards. So you don't even have to schedule anything. It's always on and always synced

But you DID mention free, so... that might not work for you. Here's their site if you're interested though:
 
http://www.2brightsparks.com/

...IMHO this is definitely the right strategy.
As per your choice of the 1830...I don't know where you are located, but over here in Germany,
the 1840 is approx 30% cheaper than the 1830...I'd go with the CPU that offers the best/most features in its datasheet for your budget.
The 1840 offers "clear HD video" when compared to the 1830, for example.

I did it once out of curiosity it did save some space but not a lot but I also ended up with a few corrupt files so I didn't bother after that

I use SyncToy and create scheduled task for it.

I use AllwaySync, which works really great.  It preserves time stamps, downloads the file to a temp location until complete, has 2-way and 1-way sync, and allows you to run multiple jobs with easy to use filters and automatic synchronization.  This is an excerpt from the license agreement for the free version.
 
 
In the past, I had tried RoboCopy, which worked well but did not do well when network connectivity was temporarily lost...even with the restart option.  My experience with Bittorrent Sync was horrible with an early beta version, and I ended up losing some time stamp data and even lost some files because of it.

Very nice, glad it worked!  I will pretend that the next beer I drink is from you.  
 

Using 2.X, you just install another copy on another PC (no need for a another license) and that copy will find the server and gives the exact same interface as if you were directly on the server.  Very neat.  And it starts instantly (compared to WHS2011 Dashboard).  

This Reconnect of a USB 3.0 Drive is a Windows 8.1 Bug. Have it now since years. 2-3 Month ago a Windows Updates fixed it for some USB 3.0 Drives but not for my Drives.
Try to Disable Drive Spindown in Powermenu and disable Energie Saving for Drives and USB Ports. 
 
Look if your USB 3.0 has a NEC Chip, it was reportet that this is more Stable under Windows 8.1.

You my friend deserve a beer, too bad we are too far apart, but your solution was right and your posting very detail, i appreciate you took the time and share with me your experience, its working exactly as before, even better now i don't depend on an old config, now the UI works.
 
Thanks again for the suggestion.

+1.  Go with 2.X.  I run WHS2011 and started with 1.X of drivepool.  Moved to 2.x and never looked back.  I like the stand alone remote DP monitor/control app much better. It starts instantly and you can control everything on your WHS server from any PC.  This is far better than having to start the WHS dashboard which, for me, takes too long to start and requires I put in the password every time.
 
I also recall that you have more file placement options going with 2.X over 1.X of DP.  Go with 2.X, no doubt.   

Thanks for the list of differences, I mostly didn't need them so I'm happy for the integration.
 
DP and Scanner a great team.

Hi Christopher, I know I've informed you of the following in our support conversation but i'll update this thread too in case anyone else has a similar issue. 

 

Stablebit's software is working great of course, and the issue seems with my config.  I was thinking it's an incompatibility with the 6Tb Red Drive, and my HP Microserver.  But something you said sparked a light in my head, which was about the controller i'm using.  I'd been using the generic windows SATA controller. This is because HP doesn't provide drivers for Windows 8 for the HP Microserver (N54L).  But i saw from other people's configurations that they seemed to be using an AMD Sata Controller driver. So i searched the net and eventually found the AMD driver compatible with windows 8 and installed that. Although the disk disappeared after restarting, a full power down and on again got it back.  And so far i've done a complete scan of the disk, this time without any errors. Since that's the first time the scan has completed without errors for that disk i am now working on the assumption that the SATA driver was the problem.  I'm doing more tests but with a bit of luck i hope it's solved.

 

Thank you so much for suggesting the controller drivers could be an issue as i think i never would have thought of that. Shame HP don't support more systems, though yes i expect Windows 8 isn't the first choice of OS for it.

 

Thanks again for the advice and ideas, it may well have saved the day for me

Thank you for grabbing the logs. I've flagged them for Alex and he'll take a look at them soon.

AS long there are back doors, there are back doors. No matter for who.
 
I`m not a programmer but I understand what you`re saying. This approach it was by design. It might be one of the main reasons Truecrypt has such a success.
 
I`m sorry, but I didn`t follow you regarding the "Product 3". I`m new here. Do you have a new product on the horizon?
If that`s the case, congrats and I wish you "All the best!" with the 3rd child.
What`s the product, if you don`t mind?
That means, DrivePool will support Truecrypt in the future?
 
Cheers,

Well, Ping is "N/A" unless you enable the ping test. This tests the response speed for the drive, and is useful for testing for performance issues.
 
So if that's "N/A", there there is no issue at all.

Actually, Server Backup is probably using a specific VSS/Backup Writer for the SQL Server. Since I'm sure this is MS SQL Server that you're talking about, then that would definitely be the case. And in fact, Microsoft has made sure that Server Backup is "aware" of SQL Server, and is part of the "application" section. So you may be able to restore just the database, if needed.
And it definitely takes a VSS snapshot, to prevent inconsistency in the data. 
 
 
It really depends on the database. 
If you're using SQLite (which is most likely the case with OwnCloud), then you should be able to just backup the files. Running a robocopy (or even just "copy") script should be enough to do so.
If you're using MySQL, you can run a script to dump the database into a SQL file (or even use phpMyAdmin to do this manually). 
As for SQL Server, well that's a lot trickier unfortunately. But I do believe you can create a database dump as well.

Yeah, there shouldn't be a problem doing os. 
But you'll want to make absolutely certain that "Real-time duplication" is enabled. (default).
 
However, it is likely that the SQL server will keep the pool activate at all times.
 
Also, keep in mind that running the SQL database on the server may make it more difficult to back up the database (if that is a concern).

I'm still weary of the the proc.  but you've clearly done your home work on your requirements,  check back in in a few months, when you get your build complete,  let us know how it goes.   

Honestly? Not really.
The Microsoft Connect website used to be pretty awesome about that.... but that's since been depreciated....
 
If you know a Windows Desktop or Windows Experience Microsoft MVP, that would be the best way to "pass along the word".
There is also the EECB method.....
 
Aside from those, posting at the technet forums:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home