Long time lurker and user of Stablebit products for many years.
Recently, I added some drives to my backup Pool but I'm having issues setting it up to best use them.
Here is my before setup:
19x 8TB drives in pool (Disk 01 to 19), using Ordered File Placement (to fill from first to last disk per Snapraid best practice)
3x 8TB Snapraid parity drives
Here's my new setup:
19x 8TB (Disk 01 to 19)
3x 8TB Snapraid parity drives
4x 14TB in same pool (not protected by Snapraid)(Disk 20 to 23)
What I'm trying to do is use File Placement Rules to put folders I have multiple copies of on the 14TB disks and migrate them away from the SR protected disks.
File Placement rules are setup like this:
Folders I want on the 14TBs are set to only go to Disk 20-23
All other folders are set to Disk 01-19 only
And here are the issues I've run into:
- Balancing is extremely slow, (sub 20MB/s). A workround is to move the data from a disk outside the Pool folder then cut and paste back into the pool. This allows the transfers to go at max source disk speed (100-200MB/s)
- New files will not always go to the proper drives
- Files copied locally (Disk 6 root to pool) will store correctly
- Files copied from the network will default to wrong pool of disks
- Ordered File Placement plugin seems to not be doing anything anymore. (enabled or disabled doesn't seem to make any difference).
I've tried all sorts of settings under Balancing but so far I haven't found the correct settings to do what I want but I believe it should be possible.
Has anyone done anything similar or have any other suggestions? Let me know if you need more information or screenshots.
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Hello,
Long time lurker and user of Stablebit products for many years.
Recently, I added some drives to my backup Pool but I'm having issues setting it up to best use them.
Here is my before setup:
19x 8TB drives in pool (Disk 01 to 19), using Ordered File Placement (to fill from first to last disk per Snapraid best practice)
3x 8TB Snapraid parity drives
Here's my new setup:
19x 8TB (Disk 01 to 19)
3x 8TB Snapraid parity drives
4x 14TB in same pool (not protected by Snapraid)(Disk 20 to 23)
What I'm trying to do is use File Placement Rules to put folders I have multiple copies of on the 14TB disks and migrate them away from the SR protected disks.
File Placement rules are setup like this:
Folders I want on the 14TBs are set to only go to Disk 20-23
All other folders are set to Disk 01-19 only
And here are the issues I've run into:
- Balancing is extremely slow, (sub 20MB/s). A workround is to move the data from a disk outside the Pool folder then cut and paste back into the pool. This allows the transfers to go at max source disk speed (100-200MB/s)
- New files will not always go to the proper drives
- Files copied locally (Disk 6 root to pool) will store correctly
- Files copied from the network will default to wrong pool of disks
- Ordered File Placement plugin seems to not be doing anything anymore. (enabled or disabled doesn't seem to make any difference).
I've tried all sorts of settings under Balancing but so far I haven't found the correct settings to do what I want but I believe it should be possible.
Has anyone done anything similar or have any other suggestions? Let me know if you need more information or screenshots.
Thanks very much.
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