Quickie re: OS drive

[monty77uk]

...to be part of the pool or not?

 

Currently have:

 

1TB

2 x 1.5TB

2TB

..drives all part of one large pool, duplicated.

 

OS drive (250Gb) on it's own.

 

Should I make this part of the pool?  If so does it provide failure protection for the boot drive properly?  Or would I still lose the OS and have to recover separately anyway?

 

Thanks, loving the product so far :-)

Adam

[dbailey75]

OS partition can not be part of the pool,  you can add the D partition of the pool, If your running WHS 2011, but it's not a good idea since WHS 2011 wipes the OS drive on a clean install. 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

DrivePool uses a kernel level driver. This means it's loaded as part of windows starting up. Which means it cannot be used to duplicate the system disk. Sorry.

 

And yes, dbailey is spot on.

[monty77uk]

Perfect, thank you.

 

What do people generally use as a backup strategy for the OS disk then?

 

Adam

[dbailey75]

Perfect, thank you.

 

What do people generally use as a backup strategy for the OS disk then?

 

Adam

I'm using the built in WSH 2011 backup utility to back up my OS drive,  I'm also running my OS drive in a raid 1.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

I use a small disk for just the system, and then use the built in backup utility as well (Windows Server Backup). 
I'm not use  RAID at all, but I am using a SSD for the system disk.