lotsofdrives

Silly Question - why don't you just back up the logical DrivePool volume? My DrivePool drive is V: - user data is under V:\Shares\Users.
V:\Shares\Users is monitored by Crashplan and backed up. And I just checked and I see v:\Shares\Users available for a 1 click restore.

Well, if the network drive support is a must, then Drive Bender is probably going to be the best option for you then.
 
As for FlexRAID, IIRC, it has a lot of weird issues ... and less than good support. 
 
 
And sorry, no, it's not likely that we'd add SMB/network share support to DrivePool any time soon. 
 
(though, if your NAS supports iSCSI, well, DrivePool supports iSCSI disks being added to the pool)

lotsofdrives, Depending on your NAS devices, you could potentially use them as iSCSI targets.  Present the iSCSI volumes to your windows box that has the "local" drives in it.  Then pool them there.  The caveat is that being remote iSCSI volumes, DrivePool and its relative software products won't be able to read any hardware data from the disks as they are not local disks.
 
I am doing something similar and using iSCSI to present disks to other machines where I can pool them there.

Sorry for the delay here.
 
StableBit DrivePool and StableBit CloudDrive are definitely very, very different products.  Specifically, StableBit DrivePool is a file based solution (storing the files on normal NTFS drives) while StableBit CloudDrive is a block based solution (storing blocks of "raw" disk data on the provider). 
 
That said, you can absolutely do this. 
 
If you're having issues with the CloudDrive disks showing up in the list for DrivePool, make sure that the disks are mounted and showing up in "This PC"/"My Computer", etc. 
 
And if that's still having issues, then please install this beta: 
http://dl.covecube.com/DrivePoolWindows/beta/download/StableBit.DrivePool_2.2.0.747_x64_BETA.exe
 
 
 
As for not supporting network drives/shares directly from StableBit DrivePool, there are a number of reasons for this.
The first is that that we're unable to determine physical location/layout of the drives. This is important, but it does no good to put files on multiple different shares, if they're located on the same physical drive on the remote system... as both copies would be lost. 
 
Additionally, where the driver is located.  StableBit DrivePool is a kernel driver, whereas Drive Bender is a user mode driver. This adds different requirements, profiles, etc.   IIRC, "in the kernel" is much more sensitive to IO delays and the like. Allowing network shares here would potentially cause all sorts of problems, and introduce stability issues. (as network connections can be finicky or take a long time 
Drive Bender gets away with this, because it's a user mode driver, and treated like an application, rather than a device. 
 
And it only gets more complicated from here. And I'm not even dealing with how we would access the shares in the kernel... 

Greetings,
 
I have two NAS devices, plus a few local hard drives, and I'd like to aggregate them all together in one Pool (ie, so that they show up as a single drive in Windows). From reading through the website and forum it seems like this may be possible, but in my initial experiments with DrivePool and CloudDrive I'm having trouble achieving this. I can create a pool of the local drives in DrivePool, and I can create a drive of a shared folder using CloudDrive. But I'm not seeing that CloudDrive location show up in DrivePool.
 
From my initial looking I think I'd prefer to just use DrivePool if possible, as it seems to have the sorts of features I'm interested in (eg, I know that I want to use the Ordered File Placement plugin).
 
Ideally I'd like to be able to just enter in a UNC path for a shared folder on each NAS in order to add it as a pooled data location in DrivePool. But I could be fine with mapping NAS drives as well, though that doesn't seem to do anything.
 
I'm trying out DrivePool 2.1.1.561 x64 and CloudDrive 1.0.0.854 x64.
 
The background on all of this is that I have CrashPlan installed on this computer, and I want to create a pooled location to point CrashPlan to for storing data that will be backed up TO this computer from another computer (using CrashPlan computer-to-computer backup). CrashPlan only supports selecting a single location for this scenario, but since I have several old NAS's, plus some local hard drives I'd like to pool them all into one drive to use as my CrashPlan repository. For those that see the value in multiple offsite backups you'll appreciate knowing that I also backup to CrashPlan's servers as well.
 
Thanks in advance for any help or advice on all this!