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Yes, if one crashes from internal failure, the other still delivers the cargo. But if the cause is *external*, your plane B will happily follow your plane A into oblivion. If you (or a virus) clicks delete instead of save, it takes no humanly-apprec…
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As far as I know, such codes were linked to testers' accounts. Any beta tester feeling generous would need to ask Covecube to manually transfer the discount and issue the recipient a new code.
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That's good to know; perhaps do a test restore of a file from the backup just to make sure?
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You could try the CoveFs_ReportAsNtfs option from http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Advanced_Settings however if the Windows Server Backup software makes use of shadow copy on the target drive I suspect it will fail (since DP does not sup…
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Hi KCJACK. Q: Should I install it?A: Do you need it? Q: Will it install or will drivepool possibly block the update?A: I don't see any reason why DrivePool would block it. It should install just fine. What's the update's KB number, by the way?
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You're welcome. And though I'm presuming you're being humorous, I'll still note duplication is redundancy, not backup. Here's a simple analogy:* data redundancy - your cargo plane has more engines than it needs to fly.* data backup - you have two c…
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It's an interesting result, since DrivePool doesn't actually need its pooled drives to have any drive letters at all. The numbers you give do have me curious as to whether your network is 10/100 or gigabit, since they're around what I'd expect for t…
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Okay, sounds like you've got the "worst that should happen is DrivePool is unable to re-point the shares" problem (except that it hasn't shared anything in the pool, not just not the default WHS shares). First, right now nothing on the pool drive is…
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Drivepool doesn't necessarily care if the source involves (partially or fully) duplicated trees. Where H: is the pool and E: and F: are drives in the pool, Drivepool considers this to be a duplicate (even if the files have different content): H:\myf…
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Ah, that explains it. If you go into Disk Management, you can give the "hidden" drives new drive letters so that they can be accessed in Explorer.
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If you have one of those little energy meters, you could try plugging the server into it and then trialling drivepool (it has a 30-day trial period). For whatever it's worth, the biggest saving I found (with my 9-drive machine) was simply turning of…
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I suspect dvdluvver's right then (WHS isn't seeing that the disks are being used). In the Alert Viewer, can you tell it to ignore the alert?
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(E, F and G don't have to have the same poolpart string, that's just me using copy-and-paste)
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I think the contradictory advice might be because lately I've been taking a rather paranoid approach to the default WHS shares; this is more because I don't trust Windows, not so much DrivePool. In an ideal world, what should happen now is you (1) …
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I should clarify that drivepool displays the volume labels, not the serial numbers.
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I remember that. I found creating the wireframe painful. If it helps any, what I do is set the volume label of each drive to the first and last three characters of the serial number - drivepool displays these in the Server Folders pool tab - then p…
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That looks like a WHS error message, not from DrivePool? Try checking your Dashboard alerts (the red/yellow/blue icons to the upper right)?
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Using DrivePool is a two-step process: add the drives you want in the pool, then add the folders you want to the pool. When you add a drive to the pool, DP creates a hidden PoolPart.identifier folder in that drive's root. So if you added E: drive to…
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I think I might have missed a step. Just in case, reboot WHS after renaming the bad disk's PoolPart folder but before removing the "missing" disk from the pool.
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Hmm. You could also simply use the log from TeraCopy or Unstoppable Copier as it should show which files it couldn't copy.
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Hi RimBlock. * The "Everything" program from www.voidtools.com can list every file on every NTFS volume; if you select "Match Case" and "Match Path" from its "Search" menu and then enter "\PoolPart." into the search field, it will display every fil…
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(also, version 0.1 guide should perhaps be called shane's _paranoid_ guide to keeping your pool happy )
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@MikeWI: What *should* happen when you use explorer to move content from (P as in the Pool's drive) P:\ServerFolders\Pictures to P:\Temp\Pictures is a pure move, not a move-via-copy. So it *should* be very quick. If it's not, yes, that will suck (an…
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Hmm. In the light of morning, I've just realised that 1.0.0.4058 beta (the one you installed) is a late M3 beta release from over six months ago. DrivePool's been through a major rewrite (and then some) since then. If you desperately need the missin…
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Draeconix, you may wish to install a program called "Everything" (www.voidtools.com) on your WHS machine to check whether it can find your files on any of the physical volumes. If it does find them, please post the path (or post that it hasn't found…
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Partitions added to the pool have a hidden PoolPart.* folder created in their root directory. Partitions should be basic (not dynamic) NTFS volumes. If you need to move data into the pool manually (e.g. if you need to boot into Ubuntu to access the …
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Personally I wouldn't "unshare" the default WHS shares. I suspect those waters have dragons. Shane's Step By Step Guide To Keeping A Happy Pool During A WHS Reinstall: (guide version 0.1 beta for drivepool build 1.0.0.5933 beta) This version of the …
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Hi sonicm, please contact Alex via http://stablebit.com/contact about this bug.
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In theory, you shouldn't need to move the shares again; in practice, anecdotally it seems this doesn't always work. It is a good idea to make sure the pool does not include the physical disk used by WHS 2011 for the system partition before you do a…
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Hmm. Can't find an immediately obvious way to pause Windows indexing via script. Will have to do some digging, but won't be today sorry.