I have my new DrivePool setup to duplicate most of the data I have that I consider important and the duplication process seems to be progressing fine.
The process is going pretty slowly but there is over 14 TB of data involved so taking a while is to be expected.
What I want to know is if there is any way to find where, in the pool, duplicates are stored for each file and/or which files have actually been duplicated?
I know I should trust the software but I am of the school that says "trust" but "verify" so I would just like to know when/if certain files have been duplicated in the process.
Right now I only have space, with about 20% extra, for 2X duplication but I hope to, over the next few months, add sufficient storage to go to 3x and maybe then I will feel safe.
DrivePool is working well and has proved to be easy to maintain and add or change storage so it really looks like it will be my solution. I have noticed that access to files in the pool seem to be a little slower BUT the files I am storing are almost all audio and video files and speed of access is not a primary concern for those.
If I can just get over my small concerns about the duplicating and verifying then I can worry a lot less than before getting DrivePool.
Oh, one more question that I think I know the answer to: Is it correct that DrivePool will assure that duplicate files are not stored on the same physical drive. That is if File1.MKV is stored on physical drive 1 then its duplicate will be stored on a different drive in the pool?
Sorry if those questions are answered in the documentation but I could not be sure. It seems like much of the documentation was written by a programmer.
BTW: I was a programmer for over 30 years starting back when the medium was paper tape and/or punch cards. Hence my documentation read the same way.
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Elijah_Baley
I have my new DrivePool setup to duplicate most of the data I have that I consider important and the duplication process seems to be progressing fine.
The process is going pretty slowly but there is over 14 TB of data involved so taking a while is to be expected.
What I want to know is if there is any way to find where, in the pool, duplicates are stored for each file and/or which files have actually been duplicated?
I know I should trust the software but I am of the school that says "trust" but "verify" so I would just like to know when/if certain files have been duplicated in the process.
Right now I only have space, with about 20% extra, for 2X duplication but I hope to, over the next few months, add sufficient storage to go to 3x and maybe then I will feel safe.
DrivePool is working well and has proved to be easy to maintain and add or change storage so it really looks like it will be my solution. I have noticed that access to files in the pool seem to be a little slower BUT the files I am storing are almost all audio and video files and speed of access is not a primary concern for those.
If I can just get over my small concerns about the duplicating and verifying then I can worry a lot less than before getting DrivePool.
Oh, one more question that I think I know the answer to: Is it correct that DrivePool will assure that duplicate files are not stored on the same physical drive. That is if File1.MKV is stored on physical drive 1 then its duplicate will be stored on a different drive in the pool?
Sorry if those questions are answered in the documentation but I could not be sure. It seems like much of the documentation was written by a programmer.
BTW: I was a programmer for over 30 years starting back when the medium was paper tape and/or punch cards. Hence my documentation read the same way.
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