so just some background, I have DP running on WS2012R2Essentials and I have 8 drives in 2 enclosures (the main computer + an esata external enclosure).
During a power outage, the main computer was rebooted but the enclosure remained powered off. Now DP is saying all the drives from the enclosure are missing.
I'm not too worried as in a few hours, I'll be back home and be able to power on the enclosure, but here comes the question...
What happens to the duplicated files during this time? Will DP start duplicating the files across the remaining 4 visible drives? Is so, when does it start that? What happens when the drives come back online and there are now 3 copies on 3 drives?
Also, as a side note, is there a provision in the duplication algorithm that makes sure duplicate files are stored on separate enclosures/locations (or at the very least different controllers)? I'm just imagining my enclosure killing 4 out of the 8 drives and I'll still lose duplicated files that were duplicated only on the drives in the enclosure. If there isn't anything like this, may I recommend this as a future feature enhancement?
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mr_yellow
Hi Guys,
so just some background, I have DP running on WS2012R2Essentials and I have 8 drives in 2 enclosures (the main computer + an esata external enclosure).
During a power outage, the main computer was rebooted but the enclosure remained powered off. Now DP is saying all the drives from the enclosure are missing.
I'm not too worried as in a few hours, I'll be back home and be able to power on the enclosure, but here comes the question...
What happens to the duplicated files during this time? Will DP start duplicating the files across the remaining 4 visible drives? Is so, when does it start that? What happens when the drives come back online and there are now 3 copies on 3 drives?
Also, as a side note, is there a provision in the duplication algorithm that makes sure duplicate files are stored on separate enclosures/locations (or at the very least different controllers)? I'm just imagining my enclosure killing 4 out of the 8 drives and I'll still lose duplicated files that were duplicated only on the drives in the enclosure. If there isn't anything like this, may I recommend this as a future feature enhancement?
Thanks,
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