Seems tickets are on a backlog, so I'll try the forums as well. I've setting up a new 24 drive server and looking first at stablebit as a solution to pool my storage since I already have multiple licenses and somewhat experience with it, just not with clouddrive.
I've done the following.
Pool A:
Physical drives only.
Pool B:
Cloud drives only.
Pool C:
A and B with 2x duplication. Drive Usage set to B only having duplicate files. This let me hold off turning on 2x duplication until I have prepared local data (I have everything in the cloud right now), so the server doesn't download and upload at the same time. Pool A has default settings. Pool B have turned off balancing, I don't want it to start downloading and uploading just to balance drives in the cloud. It's enough with the overfill prevention.
My thought process is that if a local drive goes bad or need replacement, users of Pool C will be slowed down but still have access to data via the cloud redundancy. And when I replace a drive, the duplication on Pool C will download needed files to it again. Is read striping needed for users of Pool C to always prioritize Pool A resources first?
This almost seems too good to be true, can I really expect it to do what I want? I have 16TB download as well as Pool B having double upload (2x cloud duplication for extra integrity) before I can really test it. Just wanted to see if there are any negative experiences with this before continuing. My backup plan is to just install a GNU/Linux distro instead as a KVM hypervisor and create a ZFS or MDADM pool of mirrors (for ease of expansion) with a dataset passed to a Windows Server 2019 VM on a SSD (backed up live via active blockcommit) and hope GPU passthrough really works. But it surely wouldn't be as simple ... I know there is unraid too, but it doesn't even support SMB3 dialect out of the box and I'm hesitant to the automatic management of all the open source software stacks involved.. Heard of freezes and lockups etc.. Dunno about it.
Regardless, any of the backup solutions would simply use rclone sync as I've used so far for user data backups. Which would not provide live redundancy like hierarchical pools, so I'd loose local space for parity based storage or mirroring. I wont have to loose any local storage capacity at all, if this actually works as expected.
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Seems tickets are on a backlog, so I'll try the forums as well. I've setting up a new 24 drive server and looking first at stablebit as a solution to pool my storage since I already have multiple licenses and somewhat experience with it, just not with clouddrive.
I've done the following.
Pool A:
Physical drives only.
Pool B:
Cloud drives only.
Pool C:
A and B with 2x duplication. Drive Usage set to B only having duplicate files. This let me hold off turning on 2x duplication until I have prepared local data (I have everything in the cloud right now), so the server doesn't download and upload at the same time. Pool A has default settings. Pool B have turned off balancing, I don't want it to start downloading and uploading just to balance drives in the cloud. It's enough with the overfill prevention.
My thought process is that if a local drive goes bad or need replacement, users of Pool C will be slowed down but still have access to data via the cloud redundancy. And when I replace a drive, the duplication on Pool C will download needed files to it again. Is read striping needed for users of Pool C to always prioritize Pool A resources first?
This almost seems too good to be true, can I really expect it to do what I want? I have 16TB download as well as Pool B having double upload (2x cloud duplication for extra integrity) before I can really test it. Just wanted to see if there are any negative experiences with this before continuing. My backup plan is to just install a GNU/Linux distro instead as a KVM hypervisor and create a ZFS or MDADM pool of mirrors (for ease of expansion) with a dataset passed to a Windows Server 2019 VM on a SSD (backed up live via active blockcommit) and hope GPU passthrough really works. But it surely wouldn't be as simple ... I know there is unraid too, but it doesn't even support SMB3 dialect out of the box and I'm hesitant to the automatic management of all the open source software stacks involved.. Heard of freezes and lockups etc.. Dunno about it.
Regardless, any of the backup solutions would simply use rclone sync as I've used so far for user data backups. Which would not provide live redundancy like hierarchical pools, so I'd loose local space for parity based storage or mirroring. I wont have to loose any local storage capacity at all, if this actually works as expected.
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