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Been getting more and more frustrated with Drivebender, and having read the forums here some tonight, seeing that people look to have better luck with drivepool. So I have seven 3TB drives, about 17TB of multimedia data on them. I see parts of the website that say just add a drive to the pool and maintain the information. If that's the case, I assume I'd be able to unplug my seven pool drives, uninstall drivebender, install drive pool, and then just re-add the seven 3TB drives one at a time to a new pool and retain the info? I have no duplication going at the moment (egads, how insane would we have sounded 10 years ago saying we don't have enough room for duplication with 21 terabytes of disk space?).
Is it really that straight forward? Anyone migrate from drivebender already, and what was your experience and method?
Thanks for any information.
John
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- Via WHS Dashboard, create the appropriate share folders in DrivePool or move existing empty folders into the pool to match the structure you want. Don't turn on duplication yet.
- Via Windows Explorer (and preferably using Teracopy or similar), move the data from the DriveBender {GUID} folders into the DrivePool folders.
For step 2, ideally this would be done via the pool drive (i.e. via the new drive letter that maps to the pool), however with very large amounts of data it might take a long time and could throw an error that there isn't enough free space if you try to do this all at once.The unsupported shortcut is to go into the individual drives (you might need to assign drive letters or mount points using Drive Management - see http://support.drivebender.com/entries/20437652-understanding-a-pooled-drive-s-structure), find the relevant PoolPart.* folder and the relevant subfolders matching the share folder names, and move the contents of the relevant {GUID} folders into the PoolPart.*\* folders (open the { *GUID* }. MP.$DRIVEBENDER files to work out which folder is what}. You might need to reset permissions afterwards, I'm not sure DriveBender sets permissions in the same way as DrivePool.
In theory, after you've done this on all drives, DrivePool will see all the files and they will already be distributed across the drives according to how DriveBender previously did it.
EDIT - I guess if there is at least 3TB space free across the 7 drives in the pool, then moving the data one disk at a time should be OK, i.e. Explorer/Teracopy will see the target drive as having enough space. However it could take a long time, as DrivePool will rewrite and redistribute all the files.
Yep.. Thats the funniest post i have read on any forum all year.
Im am not too sure why this is so funny, DP may not work for everyone. Like kman1122 I have also had to move away from Drivepool and Im now trying the other solution.
However as a paying Drivepool user, I would have hoped one would be allowed to express their views, without these kind of school yard responses. I guess we'll see.