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Hi Marek. This can be done using the regular tools with two caveats/exceptions: #1. If any default WHS shared folders have been moved into the pool drive, they must be moved (via the provided WHS Dashboard facility) to another drive letter before th…
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Actually, both Technogod and saitoh183 are correct: it is planned for 1.3, but you cannot do this now. From http://blog.covecube.com/2012/08/stablebit-drivepool-1-2-beta/ "But balancers can’t do everything. For example, they can’t desi…
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Very simply put, NTFS can't sit on top of NTFS to make a bunch of drives appear to be a single big drive. CoveFS, however, is designed to do this. CoveFS is what makes DrivePool possible for your NTFS drives. +edit+ So your physical drives stay form…
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For the PoolPart.guidstring folders to be present, you must have added their drives to DrivePool's pool. Have you done that yet? E.g. you have the pool as drive "P". You have physical drives "E", "F", "G". You add them to the Pool, and DrivePool cre…
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Sounds like a good plan. So to answer your question: since files stored in WHSv1's Drive Extender are not stored in sorted order - any file from any directory could be on any one or two DE drives - you'd have to repeat the process with the other two…
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I'd suspect F is a "dynamic" disk; if so, and if you chose to reinstall DrivePool in the future and wished to add it, you would need to convert it to a "basic" disk first (which depending on your skill/tools would require moving the existing data on…
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I'm not sure I'm parsing your question correctly. Should that be "one of the new drives in the HP"? Though perhaps I'm better asking: what are your plans for the old Acer? If you plan to keep both running, each keeping their own drives, and just wan…
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Does F drive appear in the "Not in pool/Drives that can be added to the pool" section? If so, what message(s) do you get when attempting to add F: to the pool?
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Hi john7, A standard install of WHS splits the operating system's drive into two partitions, C: [System] (for windows, program files, etcetera) and [Data] (for your client backup folders and shared documents/pictures/music/video folders, etcetera).…
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That's entirely understandable. Best wishes.
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The process should have been, as described in the quick start guide, add drives to the pool, then move your existing folders into the pool. Done. From what you describe it would not surprise me if the error was due to Windows not understanding the c…
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Hi stuarts, the first feature (placement control) you describe should become possible when DrivePool v1.2 is released, either as a provided or third-party plugin, while the second feature (multiple pools) is planned for DrivePool v1.3 - see the foll…
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Somewhere there's a thread on this forum where somebody had DP running on a VM emulating over a hundred TB without DP breaking a sweat... aha. http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/126/pool-size-limit Pity the screenshots are gone, but a "mere" 48TB …
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Can anyone else with a SSD as their WHS system drive confirm (or not confirm) this?
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Note that Alex only said he probably wouldn't support 2012 Essentials "with a custom dashboard add-in", and furthermore went on to say "DrivePool will most likely run on the OS, as a stand-alone application." YMMV, but I would be quite satisfied wit…
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Correction: I had "delete" in the prior post, this should be "rename" in case the old logs need to be examined.
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Try the following procedure:* Uninstall the DP addin.* Rename the "StableBitDrivePool" folder within "C:\ProgramData" (note: NOT "Program Files"). Call it "StableBitDrivePool.old" or similar so you can find it later if needed.* Reboot the machine.* …
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Hi Mathis0, that sounds like it would be covered by the new architecture Alex described, "DrivePool plug-ins that control file placement and balancing."
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First step I would try would be uninstalling and reinstalling the DrivePool addin. If this does not help, then run the WSS Troubleshooter tool at http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Utilities and try the "Restore DrivePool Shares" option.
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If you manually check the physical drives that form the pool, are your server folders still in the PoolPart.guidstring root folders (remember to turn on "show hidden files and folders" if it has been turned off)?
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Hi, what does the main Stablebit DrivePool tab in the Dashboard report for space used/free?
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Could you file a bug report with Alex via http://stablebit.com/Contact ? That's not a minor problem (or at least, I'm going to guess it doesn't yet have a quick forum fix).
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If you launch Resource Monitor (start, "resmon") and examine Disk activity, are files actually being moved?
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Four SATA ports on the motherboard, plus three "generic" two-port SATA cards (thankfully PCI Express versions), all full. Performance... just tolerable. For whatever it's worth, I often read good things about SuperMicro's AOC range of eight-port ca…
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Thanks though.
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Final(?) comment: as with any movement (or copying) of such large amounts of data between drives, there's always a chance of data error. Consider using a program that can test whether the copies match the originals after each copy operation, such as…
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Bonus scenario: old WHSv1 system had twenty 250GB drives, new system has four 2TB drives and no spare ports. What to do? Bonus Solution: you're not going to maintain the old duplication pattern, so don't even try. Add all four 2TB drives to the pool…
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Best to attach them all at once, if you can. If for some reason you can't, the thing to avoid is making any changes to the pool before you've moved each and every old drive's Shares folder from its old \DE\ location to its new \PoolPart.guidstring\ …
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Yes, DrivePool's folder duplication operates at the file system level, not the network share level, so whether you're writing a file to \\server\documents or \\server\serverfolders\documents is irrelevant as far as DrivePool's folder duplication is …
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@scasplte: yes, once you've finished moving the Shares folders out of the DE folders, you can safely delete the DE folders.