Hi - i'm looking at purchasing DrivePool (& the Scanner) in order to pool drives to reduce the no of drive letters & whatnot; whilst being able to set the placement of directories & being able to read the drives individually & whatnot; which is all clear.
However, since the auto duplication process obviously isn't a backup, i'd be looking at running pairs of pools separately (with identical drives & settings) - plus check-summing important data & whatnot... ...& having 3 copies of the data, ie a duplication + a backup, isn't financially viable.
Now, within this usage scenario there's a couple of things that aren't clear from the manual...
Well, imagining a drive in a pool suddenly catastrophically failed, obviously i'd have the separate pool to recover any files from, but is it simply the case that swapping in a new drive & assigning it to the pool would recreate the settings so that I could simply copy the files across... ...or would all of the file placement settings & whatnot for that drive have to be redone or would it rebuild them?
&, similarly, if a drive in a pool were detected as failing by the Scanner, i can see that DrivePool starts automatically moving files to other drives in the pool (which is great for my purposes obviously as it helps to maintain as much of the backup as possible); however what then happens when the drive is replaced? is everything then moved back to the new drive or does this have to be done manually?
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Hi - i'm looking at purchasing DrivePool (& the Scanner) in order to pool drives to reduce the no of drive letters & whatnot; whilst being able to set the placement of directories & being able to read the drives individually & whatnot; which is all clear.
However, since the auto duplication process obviously isn't a backup, i'd be looking at running pairs of pools separately (with identical drives & settings) - plus check-summing important data & whatnot... ...& having 3 copies of the data, ie a duplication + a backup, isn't financially viable.
Now, within this usage scenario there's a couple of things that aren't clear from the manual...
Well, imagining a drive in a pool suddenly catastrophically failed, obviously i'd have the separate pool to recover any files from, but is it simply the case that swapping in a new drive & assigning it to the pool would recreate the settings so that I could simply copy the files across... ...or would all of the file placement settings & whatnot for that drive have to be redone or would it rebuild them?
&, similarly, if a drive in a pool were detected as failing by the Scanner, i can see that DrivePool starts automatically moving files to other drives in the pool (which is great for my purposes obviously as it helps to maintain as much of the backup as possible); however what then happens when the drive is replaced? is everything then moved back to the new drive or does this have to be done manually?
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Tim.
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