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One thing I would do differently is in the case of any default WHS shares (e.g. Documents, Pictures); don't drag these manually, always use the Dashboard's "Move the folder" tool for these shares (it might not be necessary, but better safe than sorr…
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Pretty much what you have outlined above is the manual method to move (rather than move-via-copy) your files into the pool, and it's usually permissions that trips things up, as you discovered. A migration tool would be nice, yes. Adding a disk to t…
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DP does have a read striping option (from the Performance tooltip: "Read striping will read duplicated files from 2 hard drives at the same time") but as you know currently there's no guarantee the two disks will be the fast ones. Hmm. I imagine you…
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Short answer: as of now DrivePool 1.0 doesn't have multiple pools. Longer answer: it's been discussed, and if I recall correctly Alex liked the idea of performance-based pooling (if memory serves his preference was still for a single pool but being …
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(because while not officially supported, it IS possible to move rather than copy old data into the pool, via accessing the hidden poolpart folders on the corresponding physical drives).
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Can you clarify for us the steps you took to add your old disks/data to your new DrivePool install?
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Hi Dave, sportbikerr1 is referring to general Windows installers (.exe), not Add-In installers (.wssx) such as DrivePool. This is (most likely) a bug, and should I think be reported to Alex at http://stablebit.com/Contact
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Did the clean re-install help, or still the same problem?
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(1) Can you explain what you mean by "have everything mapped" - are you mapping network drives? (2) Does the problem re-occur each time you re-boot? If yes to #2, I think just go ahead and contact Alex directly at http://stablebit.com/contact with t…
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Indexing shouldn't be causing those problems. Might need to manually uninstall then reinstall drivepool (if that doesn't work, try also deleting the c:\programdata\stablebitdrivepool folder between uninstalling and reinstalling).
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That's a rather unusual glitch. I would suggest contacting Alex directly. http://stablebit.com/Contact
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Hi Alex, I think what Paaland is trying to convey is that: * currently the bars show how much of the share is on each drive (X), compared to the size of that drive (Y).* could there be an option to instead have the bars compare X to the total size o…
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Discussion moved to DrivePool forum.http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/482/dp-cause-of-booting-problems
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enykie/Michael, are you still experiencing this problem? If so, I would suggest contacting Alex. There have been others who have used VMs successfully (and others who have not).
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There may be a brief "missing drive" report if WHS takes its own time acknowledging the new location of the drive, but once it finds it, DrivePool should regain access to it too, find the PoolPart folder on the drive, automatically recognise it, and…
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1. You say you were able to move folders to the pool, but as far as I knew we're supposed to reboot between installing and using DrivePool. Did the problem occur then as well, or only after a second or third restart since installing? 2. What happens…
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Made some minor edits to the diagram.
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Kesio: you mention performance dropped when the "Indexing" notice appeared. Indexing is done by WHS, as far as I know DrivePool just reports that it's happening. Indexing is supposed to be a background task, but you may wish to try pausing it to see…
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Hi BlueFishey, you should get an email for a 50% discount off your next purchase (e.g. Scanner). You might have to wait a couple of days for it to show up, apparently the mail server that handles them got a little choked up.
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The beta wiki used to have a simple diagram of DrivePool, but it's gone - and is out of date in any case. I will create a new diagram for the release version and post it here. I hope it gives you a better "mental mud-map" of how DrivePool works.
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Ouch. You note it was a fresh build of WHS - was the pool however pre-existing from the time of the M3 beta? (my server will be getting those updates tonight or in the morning, this could be... interesting) Please definitely message Alex at http://s…
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(had to edit my previous post, oops)
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Normally, yes, on the Dashboard, under "Server Folders and Hard Drives", tab "Server Folders", you would indeed either left-click a folder name that is in the pool to see "Change duplication" available as a task on the far right, or right-click to s…
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Okay, I've looked into this. The current round of DP beta-testing discount codes weren't designed to be transferable; the facility may happen (or not) in a future update, but the current codes require manual oversight. TransientTRP, please check you…
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Should still be there. If it's the same issue as in this thread, you may have to rebuild your WHS index: See http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/452/pie-charts-in-server-folders
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While it is anecdotally unlikely that DP caused the BSOD, we personally can't know for sure; it's better to simply ask for the memory dump.
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@afk16654, if it appears to be a DrivePool issue, can you send the memory dump to Alex? http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Troubleshooting#System_Crash Thanks.
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Currently (well, last I knew, which was just yesterday) if you buy DrivePool you get emailed a discount for 50% off Scanner.
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When deciding whether to add a drive to the pool that is also used for non-pool tasks (e.g. if you're dedicating physical disk to client backups or virtual machines) keep in mind that the pool will attempt to balance its content evenly across all it…