Using OneDrive and Drivepool together to get duplication to the Cloud

[ethanol]

Now that MS is offering 1TB of storage space to all Office 365 subscriptions, has anyone played with setting up Drivepool together with OneDrive to also enable off-site cloud backup for some shares?

 

Is there any way of building this capability into DrivePool itself? That could be a killer feature!

 

 

Could you simply :

1 - install OneDrive

2 - Set-up 2 pools

- Pool 1 - for files / folders to be backed up to OneDrive

- Pool 2 - for files which should only be stored locally

3 - Move OneDrive to the root folder on the Pool #1

http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/how-to-move-your-onedrive-local-storage-to-another-drive/

4 - Store Folders in the OneDrive Folder on Pool #1 which are to be backed-up

5 - Store Folders not to be stored in OneDrive  on Pool #2

 

Thoughts?

[blueman2]

Maybe "Product 3" that is currently in development will address this.  I had the same thought.  

 

The great thing about Drive Pool is its ability to use a mix of fast (i.e. local) drives and slow (might be remote), and has the intelligence to read from the fastest drive using 'read striping' option, if you are using duplication.  

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Well, you can definitely put the SkyDrive/OneDrive storage on the Pool.

 

And instead of multiple pools, you could use the "File Placement Rules to limit which drives it ends up. If that's what you want.

 

Also, you cannot move the OneDrive folder to the root of a drive, period.

[ethanol]

Drashna,

 

So, what would you suggest?

 

One Pool with OneDrive as one of the folder on the pool?

 

Have the OneDrive folder set-up for duplication?

 

Would you need to create the folder first in the Dashboard or move the OneDrive folder to the DrivePool drive?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

To be honest, it really depends on what you want.

 

If I was doing this for my system, I'd create a share from the dashboard first, then install and configure OneDrive to use that share. And then enable duplication. 

And this would be the best method, I think.