I have DP2, full duplication of just two 2TB drives. I need to replace one of them (rising sector allocation error count).
I could just:
1. Remove on of the drives from the pool (how would DP deal with duplication if one of the two is removed?)
2. Remove the drive from the server
3. Add new drive to the server
4. Add new drive to the pool.
However, I get the feeling that removing takes some time for DP to process and adding a new one may take a very long time (in background, whatever checks it does etc).
So, I am wondering whether it would not be quicker to:
1. Copy all data from pool to a third non-pooled drive (already present in system)
2. Delete all files from pool
3. Perform steps 1 to 4 above
4. Copy all data from third non-pooled drive to pool
5. Delete all (copied) files from third non-pooled drive.
The _only_ disadvantage I can see is that I would be deleting shared folders and I am not sure whether those would be reinstated (although, I could of course just delete the contents of those 12 folders).
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Umfriend
Hi all,
I have DP2, full duplication of just two 2TB drives. I need to replace one of them (rising sector allocation error count).
I could just:
1. Remove on of the drives from the pool (how would DP deal with duplication if one of the two is removed?)
2. Remove the drive from the server
3. Add new drive to the server
4. Add new drive to the pool.
However, I get the feeling that removing takes some time for DP to process and adding a new one may take a very long time (in background, whatever checks it does etc).
So, I am wondering whether it would not be quicker to:
1. Copy all data from pool to a third non-pooled drive (already present in system)
2. Delete all files from pool
3. Perform steps 1 to 4 above
4. Copy all data from third non-pooled drive to pool
5. Delete all (copied) files from third non-pooled drive.
The _only_ disadvantage I can see is that I would be deleting shared folders and I am not sure whether those would be reinstated (although, I could of course just delete the contents of those 12 folders).
Total size of unduplicated data is about 600GB.
Any advice?
Kind rgds,
Umf
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