Sorry to resurrect an old discussion - I got this in a forum post from 2 years ago where Christopher was answering a question about why Server 2012 R2 Essentials fails during a back up:
So this fix worked for me but I have a HUGE problem with backing duplicated files. Why? Because I have over 60TB of raw storage. Using Amazon Cloud Drive @ 1.5 MB/s it would take me roughly 2 years to do a complete backup - incremental will be faster sure but damn! That first one is a doozy. I considered only backing up the most critical data but even still that's at least 1 year. I've done some comparison with other providers; sure there are other cloud storage solutions that don't throttle that severely but you're either limited to a few hundred gigs or beyond a couple terabytes it gets Enterprise level expensive. The only other reliable service I could find was Crash Plan but there is a huge Reddit thread where people are saying that they are only getting about 1.5 MB/s too and they claim that their service packages are "unlimited". We haven't even officially arrived at the 4K video era yet so folks buying movies in 4K and archiving them in digital media servers... do you see my point yet? If we're stuck doing huge backups at 1.5 MB/s and it takes 1-2 years to do a complete back up, oh god. I've gone through all my files and the best I can do is 13.5 TB of un-duplicated data that I NEED to backup. Is it possible to engineer DrivePool to put files tagged as "duplicated" in separate folders outside the PoolPart* folder so we can at least manually select only un-duplicated data?
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Royce Daniel
Sorry to resurrect an old discussion - I got this in a forum post from 2 years ago where Christopher was answering a question about why Server 2012 R2 Essentials fails during a back up:
http://stablebit.com/Support/DrivePool/1.X/Manual?Section=Using%20Server%20Backup%20to%20Backup%20the%20Pool
So this fix worked for me but I have a HUGE problem with backing duplicated files. Why? Because I have over 60TB of raw storage. Using Amazon Cloud Drive @ 1.5 MB/s it would take me roughly 2 years to do a complete backup - incremental will be faster sure but damn! That first one is a doozy. I considered only backing up the most critical data but even still that's at least 1 year. I've done some comparison with other providers; sure there are other cloud storage solutions that don't throttle that severely but you're either limited to a few hundred gigs or beyond a couple terabytes it gets Enterprise level expensive. The only other reliable service I could find was Crash Plan but there is a huge Reddit thread where people are saying that they are only getting about 1.5 MB/s too and they claim that their service packages are "unlimited". We haven't even officially arrived at the 4K video era yet so folks buying movies in 4K and archiving them in digital media servers... do you see my point yet? If we're stuck doing huge backups at 1.5 MB/s and it takes 1-2 years to do a complete back up, oh god. I've gone through all my files and the best I can do is 13.5 TB of un-duplicated data that I NEED to backup. Is it possible to engineer DrivePool to put files tagged as "duplicated" in separate folders outside the PoolPart* folder so we can at least manually select only un-duplicated data?
Please don't make me go back to Storage Spaces.
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