Moving from WHS V1

Pinger

So I am planning a update from WHS V1. I see one of the features is "Add and remove any drive at any time, even with existing non-pooled data. Existing data is not modified." So.. could I just plugin my hard drives for the V1 pool? Would it pick up all my files and add them to the pool?

Stacy

Now that would be handy..

Shane

What it means is that if you plug in a drive - from WHS v1 or anywhere else - DrivePool will not delete any files that are already on the drive.

DrivePool does not automatically add your existing files to the pool. Unless/until someone creates an import wizard or plugin, that has to be done manually.

Pinger

IMHO... You want to be the #1 drive pool replacement... Add the import HD from WHS1.. Would be pretty simple, compared to the rest of the drive pool work you are doing... But you would instantly convince a lot of people to upgrade to WHS 2011

Britgeezer

True.

But during any beta its best to buy some external HD's (3TB's externals are quite cheap at present, or if you have the large drives the thermaltake X drive devices) and preserve your data just in case.

Its what I did.

After DP goes final they can be used for Server backup .

 

Alex

I have though about an "import" feature accepting multiple formats. You're right, it would be trivial to write. It could be done in a day.

But it's not a priority... work is getting done all the time that's more complicated and it's just of a higher priority than this.

I'm sure that once the client backups are working, folder moving is smooth as butter, and DrivePool flies at 100 MB/s we can implement all the little cool bells and whistles.