madbuda

Doing some consolidation and have come to the point where I want 2 x dupe local and 1x dupe to cloud drive Using hierarchical pools can I set duplication on the local pool to achieve this? Problem is I have some folders I want duped to the cloud & local and some I want just local

More on this, say my primary server is down for an extended maintenance or failure... I would need to install cloud drive on the second server and use the local folder in order to read this data?? From what I understand is this data is not readable without CD, as in I cannot just browse to a folder and see a file

I suppose I could use HW raid 1 for the SSD cache to be safe... I know from reading you can adjust how aggressive it is. I just wasn't sure if there would be competing priorities in this configuration.

@jaga Would it be possible to mix in an SSD cache with this?

This is precisely what I was thinking (just didn't spell it out as well as you did) I'm 50/50 on the iSCSI, ideally speed locally would be a nice bonus

I was thinking more of having the secondary server a cloud drive for the primary and then the secondary using google drive... Not 100% sure about this now that I think of it A mounts B A duplicates to B B mount gdrive B duplicates to G Drive

What I am trying to accomplish is to have a main file server with a base set of folders that have duplication enabled to multiple destinations. File Server (drivepool and cloud drive) Data 1 (2 local copies) Data 2 Data 3 On Site backups (drivepool) Data 1 Data 2 Google Drive Data 1 Data 3 My plan is to use Drivepool on both local servers and cloud drive on the primary to handle both onsite and offsite replication. My assuption is I can do this using folder placement and duplication rules... Any caveats to this approach? I have debated duplicating all of the data locally and using the secondary server for the cloud duplication. **edit** Lastly, can you import an existing cloud drive on another install?