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The backup database tends to grow quite large and unless you have enough space to turn on duplication I would not recommend having the backup in the pool. The reason is that the backup database is very sensitive to errors. By putting something in th…
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I did'nt seem like DP even detected that one of the copies was corrupt. I assume making a MD5 sum of each of the file parts are too costly. I did a compare on each of the two parts and they were different. I deleted the corrupt one and then DP detec…
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Use a free service like http://followthatpage.com to track the changelog at http://stablebit.com/DrivePool/ChangeLog?Platform=whs2 I get an email within an hour after the new version is out.
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You can still have shadow copies on each individual drive, just not on the pool drive itself. That would in effect be "double shadowed" since the files are physically located on the individual drive and is shadow copied there.
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No, don't run chkdsk on the drivepool drive letter. I'm not sure what would happen, but better not do it But you can safely run it on the individual drives. The reason DP reports 2 TB free is that it cannot accurately calculate free space. It will a…
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The folder I chose to share via NFS was not part of the pool. So you are probably correct that you cannot NFS-share a DP folder. Have you tried changing the advanced settings to make DF report as native NTFS drive? Perhaps you can share via NFS then.
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What is the benefit from using haneWIN NFS over the built-in NFS support of Windows? I'm using NFS on the WHS to be able to backup vmware esxi vm's to the WHS. I just installed the NFS server role and configured a folder as a NFS share. Simply to se…
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For performance reasons DP does not update the "last update" time stamp on folders. Also DP does not report as NTFS by default. I guess Windows either uses the last update timestamp on the folder or some other NTFS feature to detect weather the thum…
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I experienced the same once. All drives were listed three times. A reboot fixed the problem for me. Have not had it since.
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Yes, you simply install the new version over the old. No need to uninstall the previous version. You will need to reboot the server after the upgrade.
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Are you running the latest version? There have been fixes to drive-removal in the last few versions.
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Just think before you do this. The client backup database is quite vulnerable. If the database gets corrupt you could loose one or all of the backups for one or all of your client machines. The client backups are for me quite important. I've got 6 d…
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A Western Digital Caviar Green HDD will draw 6W when read/write (and only 5.5 when idle).Say for simplisity you are reading or writing ALL the time. Thats 6W * 24h * 365 days = 52 KWh in a year. I don't know about power costs where you live. But the…
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I had purchased StableBit Scanner and that was installed and registered already when installing DrivePool. I'm not sure if the DrivePool register dialog checks the clipboard or not, but when I opened the "register dialog" the key was already filled …
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I had similar problems in the old "M3" days. Was related to my disks being "dynamic" instead of basic (check your disk manager in Windows). I had to use some third-party tool to convert them back.
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@Shane: Thank you for clearing that up. Instead of showing drive usage I'd like it to show storage distribution (how many % of the share's data is on which drives).
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I've done that too. I refered to this post. Just wantet others to be able to "vote" for this. If it's only me then Alex need not bother.
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Remember that DP does file duplication in real-time (by default). So when you copy to a disk the slowest of the disks that DP uses will regulate the speed. Any other operations taking place on any of the involved disks (indexing, defrag etc) will si…
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Not directly about the pie-charts, but the bar chart showing how much space a share use on each physical disk. On large disks and small shares the bars are barely visible. Instead of showing in % how much of a disk is used I'd like the option to sho…
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Just purchased as well. Thank you for giving discount to existing StableBit scanner owners.
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Another (and simpler and safer) method is just to point Picasa to \\yourserver\pictures That's what I do.
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@rfalcon Good to hear. I've tried moving the Client Backups folder to the pool a couple of times with various releases (I've got about 700GB of Client Backups so it takes some time to move, so I don't test that often). I've always had problems with …
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I'm running DP on my production server as well. I've got 6 HDDs ranging from 500MB to 2TB with a total of 4.5 TB of data in the pool. I do have external backup, but I've used DP since the beta M2 and I've never had need for the backup. The only "pro…
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DP cannot balance (i.e. move) files that it cannot get an exclusive lock on. I other words it cannot balance files which are open in some application. That can be a media device scanning files (movies , images etc) an application on a client PC or e…
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CloudBerry backup as mentioned by @Philmatic has a WHS add-in. You can create schedules and backup jobs and start them manually as well via the add-in. But it costs a few dollars. The robocopy idea of @Shane is good, but like it's set up now everyth…
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Why backup the hidden pool parts? Why not simply backup the pool drive? You will need some "simple" software that does not try to make block or sector backups, relies on shadow copies etc, but simply scans the drive for changed files and backs them …
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Shadow copies are used for two things:1. Allowing you to go back to a previous version of a file. This works on the physical drives, but is not supported on the pool at this time.2. By the server backup feature to track what has changes since the la…
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I always turn on duplication before staring to fill the share. That way it's duplicated in real-time and I don't have to wait for the duplication run afterwards. The duplication is running in the background. I.e. the server and your files are still …
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We once got a virus at work that deleted all files it could access on all network shares it could find. Very funny, not! Have you done a thorough virus scan? Just asking My kid's friend was over at our house ealier and when he stated "I don't use a…
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Note: 100% pool condition only means that all duplicated files are placed on two separate physical drives. As far as I know DP does not have any (re)balancing built-in at this time, but will place files on the pooled drive with the most available sp…