I have DrivePool installed on two PCs. A WHS2011, and a Windows 7 pc. The WHS2011 copy is working fine but when I reboot the Win7 PC DP creates another pool with one of the existing drives.
The Win7 pc has 4 drives + CD. The boot drive is SSD and is not in any DP configuration. Drive D (3TB), E(2TB) and F (3TB) are in pool as drive G. Drives D & E also have some non-pooled data; Drive F is entirely dedicated to the pool.
When the pc boots up, DP says that drive D is missing, but what really happens is that DP creates a pool for Drive H and uses drive D for that - thus drive D is missing for pool G. Pool drive H has one empty folder in it: My Pictures. Interesting note is that the 'PoolPart.*' folder for the newly created pool H has the old timestamp on it and the old 'PoolPart.*' folder has the current timestamp.
To correct the problem, I go into DP and remove drive D from the second pool (H) and then DP finds D available for the original pool (G). I don't reboot that often and would not swear that it happens every time, but I believe that it does. No data is lost, as far as I have observed.
Just in case it means anything - drive H is normally mapped to a share on the WHS2011 pc, but not the pool created by DP there.
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I have DrivePool installed on two PCs. A WHS2011, and a Windows 7 pc. The WHS2011 copy is working fine but when I reboot the Win7 PC DP creates another pool with one of the existing drives.
The Win7 pc has 4 drives + CD. The boot drive is SSD and is not in any DP configuration. Drive D (3TB), E(2TB) and F (3TB) are in pool as drive G. Drives D & E also have some non-pooled data; Drive F is entirely dedicated to the pool.
When the pc boots up, DP says that drive D is missing, but what really happens is that DP creates a pool for Drive H and uses drive D for that - thus drive D is missing for pool G. Pool drive H has one empty folder in it: My Pictures. Interesting note is that the 'PoolPart.*' folder for the newly created pool H has the old timestamp on it and the old 'PoolPart.*' folder has the current timestamp.
To correct the problem, I go into DP and remove drive D from the second pool (H) and then DP finds D available for the original pool (G). I don't reboot that often and would not swear that it happens every time, but I believe that it does. No data is lost, as far as I have observed.
Just in case it means anything - drive H is normally mapped to a share on the WHS2011 pc, but not the pool created by DP there.
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