I am using Flexraid right now only for storage pooling.
For licensing reasons I wanna change to Drivepool.
Flexraid is storing the files/folders in the following manner.
Example:
Disk1
|___ Movies
|___ Series
Disk2
|____Movies
|____Series
and so on on the other 8 disks.
Movies on Disk1 contains i.e. a folder Elysium and some files of this movie (XMBC - .nfo, .jpg etc....)
Movies on Disk 2 also contains a folder Elysium with some other files that originally where all together in a folder Elysium on the source.
This may i.e. happen when during copying from source space runs out on Disk 1 and the folder Elysium is continued on Disk 2 or for some balancing-processes running (Source is a HTPC - the machine with Flexraid running is the backup-machine)
Movies and Series from the different disks is then merged into a fodler movies and afolder series on the storagepool with the content of all same folders spread all over the different disks.
I am aware I can move folders into the hidden folder created by Drivepool on the single disks when the pool is created. So no time-consuming copying needed from the original source via network.
So - what will happen after I moved the folder Movies from disk 1 into the hidden folder on disk 1 and then move the folder movies from disk 2 into the hidden folder on disk 2. Both may also have folders with the same name as described above)
The pool already containng a folder movies.
Will there happen some sort of merging?
I am aware this might not be the best way to start with drivepool, but copying 20 TB over the net will take a reasonable amount of time.
Any hint appreciated.
Or bad idea at all and better do a fresh copy over the net to let Drivepool do its job what belongs to space-balancing and/or keep folders together when creating the pool and spreading the data.
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Hello everybody,
I am using Flexraid right now only for storage pooling.
For licensing reasons I wanna change to Drivepool.
Flexraid is storing the files/folders in the following manner.
Example:
Disk1
|___ Movies
|___ Series
Disk2
|____Movies
|____Series
and so on on the other 8 disks.
Movies on Disk1 contains i.e. a folder Elysium and some files of this movie (XMBC - .nfo, .jpg etc....)
Movies on Disk 2 also contains a folder Elysium with some other files that originally where all together in a folder Elysium on the source.
This may i.e. happen when during copying from source space runs out on Disk 1 and the folder Elysium is continued on Disk 2 or for some balancing-processes running (Source is a HTPC - the machine with Flexraid running is the backup-machine)
Movies and Series from the different disks is then merged into a fodler movies and afolder series on the storagepool with the content of all same folders spread all over the different disks.
I am aware I can move folders into the hidden folder created by Drivepool on the single disks when the pool is created. So no time-consuming copying needed from the original source via network.
So - what will happen after I moved the folder Movies from disk 1 into the hidden folder on disk 1 and then move the folder movies from disk 2 into the hidden folder on disk 2. Both may also have folders with the same name as described above)
The pool already containng a folder movies.
Will there happen some sort of merging?
I am aware this might not be the best way to start with drivepool, but copying 20 TB over the net will take a reasonable amount of time.
Any hint appreciated.
Or bad idea at all and better do a fresh copy over the net to let Drivepool do its job what belongs to space-balancing and/or keep folders together when creating the pool and spreading the data.
Thanks a lot.
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