About a week ago I had a 2TB HDD decide to never spin up again and lost a fair amount of data. The data loss was primarily because I didn't have the time to set up duplication of the most critical folders and I had no done a complete backup in over a month.
The problem is that I have a relatively large number of video files that I don't really have space to efficiently back up, yet the folders containing these files are under shares that also contain folders for our photos and numerous other documents that we want to duplicate. I've done this to minimize the number of drives that need to be mapped to easily access these folders from client PC's that already have a significant number of mapped drives (on my personal PC, I really only have one drive letter available to map!).
I've come close to writing a robocopy batch file for the most important folders to run through the Windows Scheduler, but I don't think this would ensure that duplicate files get placed on separate physical drives, so I've been hoping for something a little more "built-in" like was available with Lenovo's flavor of WHSv1.
I understand there's something in the Drivepool Command Utility called SetDuplicationCount, but I haven't seen any instructions for the proper syntax to use with it.
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About a week ago I had a 2TB HDD decide to never spin up again and lost a fair amount of data. The data loss was primarily because I didn't have the time to set up duplication of the most critical folders and I had no done a complete backup in over a month.
The problem is that I have a relatively large number of video files that I don't really have space to efficiently back up, yet the folders containing these files are under shares that also contain folders for our photos and numerous other documents that we want to duplicate. I've done this to minimize the number of drives that need to be mapped to easily access these folders from client PC's that already have a significant number of mapped drives (on my personal PC, I really only have one drive letter available to map!).
I've come close to writing a robocopy batch file for the most important folders to run through the Windows Scheduler, but I don't think this would ensure that duplicate files get placed on separate physical drives, so I've been hoping for something a little more "built-in" like was available with Lenovo's flavor of WHSv1.
I understand there's something in the Drivepool Command Utility called SetDuplicationCount, but I haven't seen any instructions for the proper syntax to use with it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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