Exclude Files

[jdoggvt]

I recently switch from FlexRAID and I have to say I'm extremely happy with the stability of the pooled drives and my system overall. FR was always a little flakey but one thing I did like was the exlusion list where I could explicitly tell it not to include certain files during a parity update.

 

I'm running into an issue where my Calibre directory is causing operations to pause because metadata.db is locked and can't be copied. I don't particularly care if this file is duplicated since all the database info is stored with the respective books but I would like to tell DrivePool to just ignore it entirely when running a duplication check/operation. Is there a way to accomplish this?

 

TIA

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Not really, It wants to duplicate everything.

 

However, if you temporarily turn of Calibre and then resolve the issue, it should properly duplicate the file, and it shouldn't cause issues in the future (as any changes/updates should apply to both copies at the same time). 

[jdoggvt]

Ok cool, I found a way to move the DB file out of the pool. 'Problem' solved

 

There's some info here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html

 

Basically you add an environmental variable CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH with the full path to the new location of your database file, i.e. C:\Users\[username]\Documents\metadata.db and it will work just fine.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

That works as well.

 

Though, I've been running Calibre (only on and off) on the pool without any issues.  So, unless you have real time duplication disabled, this shouldn't be an issue once it was properly duplicated.