I'm currently in the process of moving my storage management over to drivepool. I've read up pretty exhaustively and have been trying the software for a little while now. It's going on my old media pc with 8 drives of varying sizes.
The pc currently contains assorted media that I have manually duplicated over the years onto different spindles. Basically, 90% of the content is already duplicated. Managing all this manually is an absolute nightmare hence my turning to drivepool.
The question I have is this, if I whack all these existing drives into a new pool is there a way to make drivepool spot that there are existing duplicates and rebalance as appropriate? Or do I need to back all the files up onto another machine, wipe my old drives, create a new blank pool on the media pc and then copy them back to let drivepool handle the duplicating/balancing on it's own?
Edit: I'm not fussed on which drives the data resides - I'm happy for drivepool to manage that for me as long as everything is duplicated on a different spindle somewhere.
I'd rather not do the second because with 6+ TB data and a glacial LAN (don't ask) it'll take literally weeks to do the file copying, but from my understanding of how the pools work it's the only option. Any help gratefully received!
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Hi all,
I'm currently in the process of moving my storage management over to drivepool. I've read up pretty exhaustively and have been trying the software for a little while now. It's going on my old media pc with 8 drives of varying sizes.
The pc currently contains assorted media that I have manually duplicated over the years onto different spindles. Basically, 90% of the content is already duplicated. Managing all this manually is an absolute nightmare hence my turning to drivepool.
The question I have is this, if I whack all these existing drives into a new pool is there a way to make drivepool spot that there are existing duplicates and rebalance as appropriate? Or do I need to back all the files up onto another machine, wipe my old drives, create a new blank pool on the media pc and then copy them back to let drivepool handle the duplicating/balancing on it's own?
Edit: I'm not fussed on which drives the data resides - I'm happy for drivepool to manage that for me as long as everything is duplicated on a different spindle somewhere.
I'd rather not do the second because with 6+ TB data and a glacial LAN (don't ask) it'll take literally weeks to do the file copying, but from my understanding of how the pools work it's the only option. Any help gratefully received!
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