I have one pool with x2 duplication turned on for all folders/files. No balancing or file placement rules (stock standard out of the box install with no customisations). Let's call this the Primary Pool.
I have another pool which contains a copy of all the files in the first pool but without duplication. Let's call this the Secondary Pool. The file and folder structure exactly matches that of the Primary Pool - in fact it was copied using RoboCopy with the /MIR option.
What I'm thinking of doing is creating a new pool and adding the Primary and Secondary pools to it, then turning on x2 duplication between the two sub-pools (i.e., at the top pool level). I'm sure this will work but what worries me is whether DrivePool itself will consider the pools to be equivalent and therefore not attempt to do any balancing between the two immediately following the pool creation. The secondary pool consists of SMR drives.
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Rob Manderson
I have the following scenario.
I have one pool with x2 duplication turned on for all folders/files. No balancing or file placement rules (stock standard out of the box install with no customisations). Let's call this the Primary Pool.
I have another pool which contains a copy of all the files in the first pool but without duplication. Let's call this the Secondary Pool. The file and folder structure exactly matches that of the Primary Pool - in fact it was copied using RoboCopy with the /MIR option.
What I'm thinking of doing is creating a new pool and adding the Primary and Secondary pools to it, then turning on x2 duplication between the two sub-pools (i.e., at the top pool level). I'm sure this will work but what worries me is whether DrivePool itself will consider the pools to be equivalent and therefore not attempt to do any balancing between the two immediately following the pool creation. The secondary pool consists of SMR drives.
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