monty77uk Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 ...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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dbailey75 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 monty77uk Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Perfect, thank you. What do people generally use as a backup strategy for the OS disk then? Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dbailey75 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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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
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