I haven't started playing with Drivepool yet (waiting for some disks), but i am just curious about the underlying folder structure on the physical disks. We can read the drives independently of Drivepool in the event of problems due to NTFS, as i hear that the files are kept in a hidden folder nothing special.
But what i am wondering is how the files look there if i were to open that folder.
Are they just kind of randomly allocated there, or is there a folder structure that matches, or is close to the folder structure we would see on the actual pooled virtual drive.
For example, if on my pooled drive i had a folder, say "P:\documents\important\file1.doc", would i see something similar in the hidden folders on whichever physical disk the actual file was stored, such as "E:\<hidden folder>\documents\important\file1.doc"? Or is it all very much mixed up and random? Just curious, as if it were kinda random it would be harder to get things back organised together manually later, should it be required (i know will probably never need to do it, as i say, just my curiosity)
And as a bonus optional question, does anyone know if CrashPlan backup would backup ok from the virtual pooled drive?
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vanian
Hi,
I haven't started playing with Drivepool yet (waiting for some disks), but i am just curious about the underlying folder structure on the physical disks. We can read the drives independently of Drivepool in the event of problems due to NTFS, as i hear that the files are kept in a hidden folder nothing special.
But what i am wondering is how the files look there if i were to open that folder.
Are they just kind of randomly allocated there, or is there a folder structure that matches, or is close to the folder structure we would see on the actual pooled virtual drive.
For example, if on my pooled drive i had a folder, say "P:\documents\important\file1.doc", would i see something similar in the hidden folders on whichever physical disk the actual file was stored, such as "E:\<hidden folder>\documents\important\file1.doc"? Or is it all very much mixed up and random? Just curious, as if it were kinda random it would be harder to get things back organised together manually later, should it be required (i know will probably never need to do it, as i say, just my curiosity)
And as a bonus optional question, does anyone know if CrashPlan backup would backup ok from the virtual pooled drive?
Thanks a lot
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