Hi, I have a 10TB media server with SnapRAID and Drivepool and everything was fine until the other day when I was informed by Hard Disk Sentinel that one of my drives was critical and to back it up and replace immediately. When I came to replace the drive it became apparent that I didn't really understand how drivepool works so even though I stumbled my way through and it is all fine now I just want some information so that I understand it better for next time.
So because I have the pool protected by SnapRAID and also I have the entire pool backed up weekly to a backup server I have file/folder duplication turned off in Drivepool. Having read the DP documentation I now understand that if I select 'Remove' next to one of the pool drives then it will attempt to move the data from that drive to the other drives in the pool before then removing the drive from the pool. However, in my situation I don't want any files moved off the drive because I'm backing it up to another drive and then replacing it or rebuilding the data an the new drive with SnapRAID.
So what I want to know is what is the correct procedure to remove a drive that is still functioning from the pool without DP attempting to move any files around.
I know I can just physically remove the drive from the PC and then DP will show it as missing and then you can just click remove but is this the correct procedure to use.
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Hi, I have a 10TB media server with SnapRAID and Drivepool and everything was fine until the other day when I was informed by Hard Disk Sentinel that one of my drives was critical and to back it up and replace immediately. When I came to replace the drive it became apparent that I didn't really understand how drivepool works so even though I stumbled my way through and it is all fine now I just want some information so that I understand it better for next time.
So because I have the pool protected by SnapRAID and also I have the entire pool backed up weekly to a backup server I have file/folder duplication turned off in Drivepool. Having read the DP documentation I now understand that if I select 'Remove' next to one of the pool drives then it will attempt to move the data from that drive to the other drives in the pool before then removing the drive from the pool. However, in my situation I don't want any files moved off the drive because I'm backing it up to another drive and then replacing it or rebuilding the data an the new drive with SnapRAID.
So what I want to know is what is the correct procedure to remove a drive that is still functioning from the pool without DP attempting to move any files around.
I know I can just physically remove the drive from the PC and then DP will show it as missing and then you can just click remove but is this the correct procedure to use.
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