I've been testing in preparation for actual setup. I have two drive set up in DrivePool with a File Placement setting so that data placed in a particular folder is preferentially placed on a specific drive. To simulate a lost drive, I take it offline from Disk Management first, then DrivePool says a drive is gone so I remove it there (have to do it this way so DrivePool doesn't move files around when removing a drive). Then I add a new drive and remount it to a folder in Disk Management. The new drive shows up and I added it DrivePool. Then after tidying up snapraid.conf I run snapraid fix to restore the bad drive that was removed. If I head back to DrivePool I have to set up File Placement rules again. It sounds like this is what should normally happen, but is there any reason to have some way to save or restore File Placement settings?
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Setup is DrivePool + SnapRAID under Server 2016.
I've been testing in preparation for actual setup. I have two drive set up in DrivePool with a File Placement setting so that data placed in a particular folder is preferentially placed on a specific drive. To simulate a lost drive, I take it offline from Disk Management first, then DrivePool says a drive is gone so I remove it there (have to do it this way so DrivePool doesn't move files around when removing a drive). Then I add a new drive and remount it to a folder in Disk Management. The new drive shows up and I added it DrivePool. Then after tidying up snapraid.conf I run snapraid fix to restore the bad drive that was removed. If I head back to DrivePool I have to set up File Placement rules again. It sounds like this is what should normally happen, but is there any reason to have some way to save or restore File Placement settings?
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