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1TB Of Unknown Duplicate Data?


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Hi, 

 

On my WHS2011 server I uninstalled the V1 & installed the V2, I played for a few weeks and decided I prefer the V1 so uninstalled V2 & installed V1

 

Everything went well except V1 remember some hard drives I had installed at the time before I installed V2

 

I removed those drives and all my data is still intact but I have 985GB of Duplicated Data that I am unable to get rid of?  Is there a way of "cleaning" or something similar?  I have already tried to re-index with no joy.

 

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Hi,

 

I sorry remeasuring is what I did, I meant that but typed re-index by mistake... it didn't make any difference 

 

Drive K:\ had nothing in the bin and I am not sure what you mean by "snapshots" ?

 

I am in the process of removing disks formatting them and then adding them back to the pool one by one... 

 

Hoping there will be a faster solution :-)

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By "snapshots", I mean "VSS snapshots", or "Shadow Copy snapshots".

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH83223

But I'm not sure you can easily do that on WHS2011....

 

 

Could you get a memory dump of the service? 

http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Service_Memory_Dump

 

After doing that, upload any error reports and logs. 

http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Log_Collection

Namely, do Steps #7-10.

 

After doign that, reset DrivePool's setttings, and that may fix it:

http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q2299585

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Hi,

 

I have uploaded the memory Dump & the error log (seperately with the description of "Unexplained Duplication" )

 

I have deleted everything in the programdata to reset settings

 

I left it overnight to settle and I now have 1.25TB of duplicated data with no folders set to duplicate! so it has increased!

 

I look forward to your replies :-)

 

Thank You

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On WHS2011, you can even simply disable Shadow Copies. I am not sure what the files that do end up in de SysVolInf folder are, I think they are mostly to do with Server Backup and can take a lot of space as well but I don't think the OP uses Server Backup.

It's used by "Volume Shadowcopy Service" and anything that uses that feature. That includes Windows (Server) Backup, Previous Versions, System Restore, Azure Cloud Backup, Acronis, etc.

If you're not using ANY of those utilites, then it is 100% safe to purge those snapshots.

 

Hi,

 

I have uploaded the memory Dump & the error log (seperately with the description of "Unexplained Duplication" )

 

I have deleted everything in the programdata to reset settings

 

I left it overnight to settle and I now have 1.25TB of duplicated data with no folders set to duplicate! so it has increased!

 

I look forward to your replies :-)

 

Thank You

Could you post a picture of what you mean? I just want to be 100% clear, and an image would be much simpler.

 

Also, since I can't tell, what version of DrivePool are you on (1.3, obviously, but more specific than that)?

That, or if you wanted to see about updating to the latest version of DrivePool?

http://dl.covecube.com/DrivePool/beta/download/

(Newest at the bottom)

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I have found the problem...........

 

It was my folder called "Video Pool" which was created at the same time as all the others via the WHS2011 Dashboard

 

I tried enabling then disabling duplication on all my folders to see if that would do anything, I was able to do this on all folders except Video Pool, as soon as I clicked "change duplication" it would appear as if it had worked but the duplication status would always say "no"

 

I copied all the content into a newly created folder & then deleted the video pool folder & now all is back to normal! the duplication is showing 1kb which I can live with :-) 

 

Guess I will never know what caused the corruption but I am just glad it is resolved....

 

Thank you so much for all your support, I really cannot fault your service!

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