krodami Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 This might be a newbie question, but I have created a pool using disks that currently have data in them, what is the best/quickest way to get 40TB of data into the pool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Spider99 Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 See this thread which includes the link to the "quick and dirty" method Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 This, specifically: http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4142489 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ikon Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 I have been wondering why DrivePool doesn't offer an option to move the files for you; perhaps a checkbox that says, "please move all non-pooled files into the pool on newly added drives". That way, DrivePool could take whatever steps are necessary, such as temporarily halting duplication on the newly added drives, to ensure the movement of the files is handled correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 It does let you know, though. But as for why? Add the C: drive ..... and since we can't boot from the pool... suddenly, no bootable system! And it would otherwise destroy your existing config. there is a feature request for this, and it is something that I'd like to see. But we've been busy and haven't had the time to add new features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ikon Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 My bad. I should have mentioned that I had figured the 'auto move' option would detect and exclude, with a warning presumably, the system boot drive; something like, "the boot drive cannot be added to a Drive Pool". I know some 'other' drive pooling software programs do automatically relocate files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 But how do we tell what should be moved and what shouldn't? For instance, my "MSYS" (linux emulation) program? My GIT stuff? Games? How about Windows Server roles, like WSUS, WDS, DFS, web site stuff, etc? The detection and handling routines alone ..... The point is that there isn't a good way to handle this, so we have users do it "by hand". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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This might be a newbie question, but I have created a pool using disks that currently have data in them, what is the best/quickest way to get 40TB of data into the pool?
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