I run WHS 2011 and have been running Drivepool 1.x for some years. Lately I have had some folder permission problems with folder moves between shares, and the folder that is "moved" is left empty on it's share and I cannot access the folder without a server reboot. Cannot take ownership, etc. even with Administrator account. Anyhow, after much troubleshooting I decided to try Drivepool 2.x and so far so good. Still not sure where the system was glitching, maybe a large pool of 21 drives? But....
I always preferred to run manual duplication on Drivepool 1.x, and also without background I/O priority so when I chose to duplicate, it would do it a full speed. I did this with settings, and also edited the config file for background priority. Worked great! I noticed that Drivepool 2.x does it differently, even when NOT selecting Real time duplication under performance. I read that duplication will be performed later anyway in the manual. Apparently from time to time Drivepool 2.x does a check and duplicates anyway. Then I found this setting in the Drivepool 2.x Wiki: FileDuplication_AlwaysRunImmediate which I editied to FALSE. Is this setting still valid in Drivepool 2.x? I ask because it wasn't in the default config file, so I copied it from the wiki and edited an entry in my config file. But, it doesn't seem to keep duplication from sensing a file that needs to be duplicated and running a check.
The reason I do not want to do this, is because I duplicate some folders which receive downloads of archive sets, which will be in these folders temporarily until they are checked and extracted, then they are deleted. But Drivepool is still trying to duplicate these in meantime and wasting disk access and possibly resources.
Is there any way to strictly make duplication manual as in Drivepool 1.x?
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I run WHS 2011 and have been running Drivepool 1.x for some years. Lately I have had some folder permission problems with folder moves between shares, and the folder that is "moved" is left empty on it's share and I cannot access the folder without a server reboot. Cannot take ownership, etc. even with Administrator account. Anyhow, after much troubleshooting I decided to try Drivepool 2.x and so far so good. Still not sure where the system was glitching, maybe a large pool of 21 drives? But....
I always preferred to run manual duplication on Drivepool 1.x, and also without background I/O priority so when I chose to duplicate, it would do it a full speed. I did this with settings, and also edited the config file for background priority. Worked great! I noticed that Drivepool 2.x does it differently, even when NOT selecting Real time duplication under performance. I read that duplication will be performed later anyway in the manual. Apparently from time to time Drivepool 2.x does a check and duplicates anyway. Then I found this setting in the Drivepool 2.x Wiki: FileDuplication_AlwaysRunImmediate which I editied to FALSE. Is this setting still valid in Drivepool 2.x? I ask because it wasn't in the default config file, so I copied it from the wiki and edited an entry in my config file. But, it doesn't seem to keep duplication from sensing a file that needs to be duplicated and running a check.
The reason I do not want to do this, is because I duplicate some folders which receive downloads of archive sets, which will be in these folders temporarily until they are checked and extracted, then they are deleted. But Drivepool is still trying to duplicate these in meantime and wasting disk access and possibly resources.
Is there any way to strictly make duplication manual as in Drivepool 1.x?
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