I have a pool with two 4TB drives and 2x duplication. The drives were nearly full (~213GB free on each) so I was going to replace both with larger 10TB drives. I shut down the computer, removed one of the drives and replaced it with an empty unformatted 10TB drive. I turned the computer back on and created and formatted a partition. I removed the missing drive from the pool in DP and added the new empty drive. DP started balancing. At the end of the process a half day or so later, the 10TB drive is reporting as expected in DP, but the 4TB drive I did not remove and the one being balanced from is now reporting 6.86 TB of Duplicated files and 213GB free. There is something in parens after the duplicated space amount but it is clipped by the window boundaries.
If I mount both drives and look at them natively The total number of bytes, files, and folders match, so I believe all is ok "under the covers", but for some reason DP is reporting double the amount of duplicated space for the 4TB drive an amount larger than the actual physical drive).
I tried rebooting but that did not correct the problem.
Screen shots attached.
I did not have an extra free internal drive bay to have both the old and new drive online at the same time. I didn't want to do this externally over USB or eSATA.
As the first 10TB drive seems to have received a good copy, and as I will save the 4TB drives for a while as backup, I am going to go ahead and replace the other 4TB drive with a 10TB and have the files balanced back in the opposite direction. Just wanted to report this as I couldn't see something like it in a quick forum search. It might all be explained by the part of the message cut off in parens.
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JazzMan
Hi,
DP 2.2.0.651
Win 7 SP1 x64
Scenario;
I have a pool with two 4TB drives and 2x duplication. The drives were nearly full (~213GB free on each) so I was going to replace both with larger 10TB drives. I shut down the computer, removed one of the drives and replaced it with an empty unformatted 10TB drive. I turned the computer back on and created and formatted a partition. I removed the missing drive from the pool in DP and added the new empty drive. DP started balancing. At the end of the process a half day or so later, the 10TB drive is reporting as expected in DP, but the 4TB drive I did not remove and the one being balanced from is now reporting 6.86 TB of Duplicated files and 213GB free. There is something in parens after the duplicated space amount but it is clipped by the window boundaries.
If I mount both drives and look at them natively The total number of bytes, files, and folders match, so I believe all is ok "under the covers", but for some reason DP is reporting double the amount of duplicated space for the 4TB drive an amount larger than the actual physical drive).
I tried rebooting but that did not correct the problem.
Screen shots attached.
I did not have an extra free internal drive bay to have both the old and new drive online at the same time. I didn't want to do this externally over USB or eSATA.
As the first 10TB drive seems to have received a good copy, and as I will save the 4TB drives for a while as backup, I am going to go ahead and replace the other 4TB drive with a 10TB and have the files balanced back in the opposite direction. Just wanted to report this as I couldn't see something like it in a quick forum search. It might all be explained by the part of the message cut off in parens.
Thanks,
David
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