My backup plan has been to move files to HDDs that I store in my closet. Normally, that has worked. Unfortunately, the other day I was moving media files to a 3TB HDD backup drive and the backup drive's directory became corrupted and unreadable. Fortunately, I still have a copy of those files in DrivePool, but I will have to manually determine which exact files were lost on that specific backup drive. Pain in the butt, but it can be done given time.
I am now thinking that a better option for me would be to create a 3TB pool/sub pool/or folder in DrivePool that I could copy files to over time and then dump on a backup HDD when the pool space is full. After the files have been copied over and verified, I would delete them from DrivePool. Is it possible to exact size limit a pool/sub pool/or folder like that in DrivePool? If not, is there any third party software that can perform this same task? I know some other operating systems allow you to size limit a folder, but Windows does not have that feature itself that I am aware of.
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My backup plan has been to move files to HDDs that I store in my closet. Normally, that has worked. Unfortunately, the other day I was moving media files to a 3TB HDD backup drive and the backup drive's directory became corrupted and unreadable. Fortunately, I still have a copy of those files in DrivePool, but I will have to manually determine which exact files were lost on that specific backup drive. Pain in the butt, but it can be done given time.
I am now thinking that a better option for me would be to create a 3TB pool/sub pool/or folder in DrivePool that I could copy files to over time and then dump on a backup HDD when the pool space is full. After the files have been copied over and verified, I would delete them from DrivePool. Is it possible to exact size limit a pool/sub pool/or folder like that in DrivePool? If not, is there any third party software that can perform this same task? I know some other operating systems allow you to size limit a folder, but Windows does not have that feature itself that I am aware of.
Any help appreciated.
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