p3dal

I have two pools on my computer, one unencrypted and one encrypted. I've read on here that bitlocker is the preferred method of encrypting drives, and my normal procedure is to enter the password after restart for each drive before restarting the drivepool service, otherwise the encrypted drivepool doesn't show up at all and drivepool doesn't see the disks. Today, the drivepool service seems to be failing to restart, meaning I can neither make a new pool, add my encrypted drives to a pool, or see my encrypted pool. Drivepool doesn't show my encrypted pool at all, when I would expect it to still have the pool, but show the disks as missing. What do I need to do to come up with a procedure that will allow me to reliably restart my computer when required without restarting services?

As an update, I tried copying 4TB of data to the multipool and let it run for a day or so. Eventually the computer started having weird issues. Applications refusing to launch, files failing to open, copy speeds slowing to a halt, and generally acting like the I/O queue was full. For example, I tried to open notepad several times, and maybe an hour later a bunch of notepad windows popped up suddenly. Some applications responded normally, others acted very strangely. I don't think what I'm attempting here with the multipool is going to work well enough to be reliable. It was an interesting experiment I suppose. I've steered clear of cloud drive in the past, and I think I'll continue to do so. Still looking for a good way to keep two directories synchronized between the two computers.

I've been using drivepool on my server (win 10 machine) to provide duplicated file storage to my other machines on the network for years now. To avoid the risk of a single machine experiencing a failure, I would like to ensure my files are duplicated between my desktop (3x USB external hard drives) and my server (4x 8TB and 4x 4TB). My goal is to have a desktop with real time access to to the files, and any changes automatically mirrored to an identical directory on the server. This directory could then be made available via VPN to my laptop when I am traveling while my desktop is powered down. To accomplish this, I've tried the following configuration. Pool 1 - Server: (physically on server) 4x 8TB 4x 4TB Pool 2 - Desktop (physically on desktop) 3x USB Drives (totaling 32 TB) Pool 3 - "Multipool" (includes both, but managed on desktop) with 2x Duplication turned on. Stablebitclouddrive share pointing to Pool 1 Pool 2 As I started migrating a 4TB directory into the multipool, I discovered the cloud drive is converting all of the data into .dat files and storing them on the server, meaning they don't seem to be usable or accessible from the server, which defeats my idea of sharing them outside the network. Is there a better way to accomplish my goal? Can I connect clouddrive on the server to the clouddrive files being stored in Pool 1 so they can be accessed from either machine? I assume that's not how cloud drive is designed to work. I've also tried mounting the server shared folder as a network drive on the desktop, but it doesn't seem to present it in drivepool. What is the best way to use drivepool to mirror a directory between two computers? Or would I be better off running a nightly robocopy script to keep them synced?

I've decided that I want to split my pool into two so I can have one pool of encrypted drives and one pool of unencrypted drives. I've started by removing one drive from the pool, encrypting it with bitlocker, then adding it to a new pool. After restarting, (and entering the password to unlock the drive) I found that both the pool was gone and drivepool no longer saw the drive at all. After reading some of the threads out there I figured that drivepool might detect the drive if I restarted the service, and after a few minutes the service came back up and detected the drives, but I'm looking for a way to not have to restart the service every time I restart the computer. I suspect from reading the threads that there is a way to automatically unlock the drive based on encrypting the OS, but that's actually opposite of what I want to accomplish. I want to ensure that this computer, should it ever be stolen, will not automatically decrypt these drives, as it is currently already set to automatically login, so my remote access software will work. Is there any way to ensure that drivepool detects my bitlock-ed drive after I unlock it, without restarting the service? or is restarting the service the only way to ensure drivepool detects it and adds it back to the pool? I don't even mind the extra steps so much as it makes me nervous to rely on something that feels like a workaround.