I might have a niche case here, but maybe others would benefit as well.
I run Server 2016 with deduplication on one of my volumes. All of my backup jobs go there, and I get pretty good deduplication savings from all of the fulls and diffs. For ease of management, this drive is a part of my pool. I also run Scanner, and I know it will evacuate a drive if it detects SMART errors (a great feature). However, in this case if I try to move all of my backups off the deduplicated volume, it will need to rehydrate them all. Due to the savings, I'll need an extra TB to place them all elsewhere in the pooled drives. I'd like to be able to exclude this drive from this particular plugin. If I lose my backups due to a SMART error, no big deal.
I guess I could also exclude the drive from the pool altogether and just run my backups to a separate drive... but I figured I'd ask if this were already possible with Drivepool.
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I might have a niche case here, but maybe others would benefit as well.
I run Server 2016 with deduplication on one of my volumes. All of my backup jobs go there, and I get pretty good deduplication savings from all of the fulls and diffs. For ease of management, this drive is a part of my pool. I also run Scanner, and I know it will evacuate a drive if it detects SMART errors (a great feature). However, in this case if I try to move all of my backups off the deduplicated volume, it will need to rehydrate them all. Due to the savings, I'll need an extra TB to place them all elsewhere in the pooled drives. I'd like to be able to exclude this drive from this particular plugin. If I lose my backups due to a SMART error, no big deal.
I guess I could also exclude the drive from the pool altogether and just run my backups to a separate drive... but I figured I'd ask if this were already possible with Drivepool.
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