I've ran DrivePool for years and have had little to no problems with the software itself.
I have duplication turned on for most of my important media (ie photos/videos)
In the past, I've had drive corruption that required running chkdsk. I had a case where chkdsk "repaired" the drive which resulted in many of my files ending up 0kb. These files were originally duplicated, so I thought no problem, DrivePool will repair the duplication and the 0kb files will be replaced with the originals. Only, I don't think that's what happened. I ended up losing some files.
Fast forward to now. I had a drive that ended up with corruption. I pulled the drive and ran chkdsk on it. Drive is now repaired, but I found 0kb files. I checked my DrivePool and the same file does exist with data.
The question is, how do I proceed? Do I return the drive to the array and let DrivePool correct it? Do I delete the 0kb files first? If we were talking 10-20 files I would just back them up and go over the results and replace the missing/bad files. However I have many thousands of files. Trying to track which ones need to be fixed would be a project in of itself.
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Rob Platt
I've ran DrivePool for years and have had little to no problems with the software itself.
I have duplication turned on for most of my important media (ie photos/videos)
In the past, I've had drive corruption that required running chkdsk. I had a case where chkdsk "repaired" the drive which resulted in many of my files ending up 0kb. These files were originally duplicated, so I thought no problem, DrivePool will repair the duplication and the 0kb files will be replaced with the originals. Only, I don't think that's what happened. I ended up losing some files.
Fast forward to now. I had a drive that ended up with corruption. I pulled the drive and ran chkdsk on it. Drive is now repaired, but I found 0kb files. I checked my DrivePool and the same file does exist with data.
The question is, how do I proceed? Do I return the drive to the array and let DrivePool correct it? Do I delete the 0kb files first? If we were talking 10-20 files I would just back them up and go over the results and replace the missing/bad files. However I have many thousands of files. Trying to track which ones need to be fixed would be a project in of itself.
Hoping DrivePool knows how to handle this.
I'm on version 2.2.2.933
Thank you!
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