I currently backup my computer with CrashPlan(http://www.code42.com/crashplan/). Recently I had a hard drive fail. The issue I ran into was that with DrivePool is that I don't know what was on that hard drive to try and restore. I had to restore "Everything" because CrashPlan doesn't not have the ability to only restore what is missing. It is total crap!
That being said, I would like to prepare for the next drive failure. Let's say this is my current setup
/Movies
/TV Shows
/Photos
If I look at each of the physical discs, some have all 3 folders, so have a few/couple, some have none. My thought process, and please tell me if this is poor logic, is to make sure that each physical disk has the same folders. Even adding the folders manually if needed. Then I can use CrashPlan to backup up each physical disk/folder. When a drive fails, I just restore the folders on that physical drive.
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Can I add folders manually to the DrivePool folder on each physical drive?
Is this a poor way to do this? Am I thinking about this wrong?
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champs777
I currently backup my computer with CrashPlan(http://www.code42.com/crashplan/). Recently I had a hard drive fail. The issue I ran into was that with DrivePool is that I don't know what was on that hard drive to try and restore. I had to restore "Everything" because CrashPlan doesn't not have the ability to only restore what is missing. It is total crap!
That being said, I would like to prepare for the next drive failure. Let's say this is my current setup
/Movies
/TV Shows
/Photos
If I look at each of the physical discs, some have all 3 folders, so have a few/couple, some have none. My thought process, and please tell me if this is poor logic, is to make sure that each physical disk has the same folders. Even adding the folders manually if needed. Then I can use CrashPlan to backup up each physical disk/folder. When a drive fails, I just restore the folders on that physical drive.
Questions
Can I add folders manually to the DrivePool folder on each physical drive?
Is this a poor way to do this? Am I thinking about this wrong?
Thank you in advance!
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