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You're welcome. And the kudos go to Alex, I'm just a happy customer / forum volunteer.
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If you only have one drive in the pool you cannot have duplication, since that requires more than one drive to work. You can control whether a shared folder is duplicated via the Dashboard. If you use the Dashboard to remove a drive from the pool, i…
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Is the file you are trying to move larger than the largest free space remaining on any one of the drives in the pool? E.g. say you had 2TB free in the pool, which was made up of four drives each with 500GB free, then the largest new file you could p…
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Hi waghelak. When you remove a drive from the pool using the "Add/remove disks..." task in the StableBit DrivePool section of the Dashboard, its data is moved to the other disk(s) in the pool. So swapping an old drive for a new drive is a matter of …
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Any change in the speed of the duplicating? I know that disk latency can really slow down duplication if it's having to deal with a very large number of small files, but 24 hours for 10.5GB is... well, beyond terrible and deep into ludicrous. Someth…
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Does it work with really small files?
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If you're shifting the file from one share in the pool to another share in the pool, due to the way Windows networking operates it will perform a copy operation rather than a move operation; this is not within DrivePool's control. You can see the di…
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Hmm. Yes, download the newest RST for Server 2008 R2 from Intel, as the HP website is using version 9.6 which could be the source of your problems.
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It would be good to have your system properly recognising their sizes. 1. Make sure you are using GPT instead of MBR for large drives. See this MSDN article [link]. 2. You may wish to check HP's website to see if there is a WHS-compatible driver for…
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Hi piotrg. What motherboard are you using? Are the four 3TB drives the only drives or do you have others?
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On the default setting (automatic), it'll build a single file if there's room and only split it if there's not. Note that given the logistics of JBOD-esque arrays, it's best to minimise the number of disks a container object (e.g. a backup) is sprea…
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A how-to for this would be good. Can anyone who has successfully gotten Bitlocker to work with DrivePool please write something up nice for the forum?
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Hi stuarts, I use Acronis TrueImage on a bootable CD to backup customer drives to a share on the pool. Exactly this scenario arose, and TrueImage (per its default settings) automatically splits the backup and begins a new part file, which DrivePool …
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Restoring from the backup is only if things go wrong during the reinstall (note: you'd be restoring the version that had the old motherboard drivers). I try to not keep irreplaceable apps/data on the OS drive for this reason. Re adapters, I find 3Gb…
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By the "recreate folder button", do you mean the "Restore DrivePool Shares" option of the troubleshooting tool? Did your pool drive letter change when you added the "one more WD red drive"? Windows has a bug whereby adding a drive can 'bump' an exis…
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That sounds right - backup OS drive (since WHS formats the entire drive during install), then install WHS with only the OS drive connected, then reconnect your data disks, make sure OS and drivers are up to date, then install DrivePool. It should pi…
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Hi ChipMonk. The risks/problems are mainly in balancing not working as intended. It's not a data loss risk. What you could do is try turning your desired balancers back on one-by-one, and/or altering their priorities (take note of the default priori…
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Hmm. Do the Task Manager and Resource Monitor (from Task Manager or Start bar) give you any indication of which particular processes are dominating CPU and disk activity? Does disabling the Windows Search service help at all? Have you tried forcing …
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Hi ahoegh. Read carefully the following steps, and as always remember to power down your server when physically changing drives if it does not support hot-swapping. This how-to assumes all of the drives are used solely by DrivePool. 1. Turn off real…
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Could you try manually remeasuring the pool (go to the Dashboard's "Server Folders and Hard Drives", select the "Pool" tab, select your Pool drive, then click "Remeasure" in the tasks pane)?
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Hi ove1. That's because yes, it actually should be showing the total size of your pooled files (before duplication) as well as how much is used by any duplication. Something's not working as intended. Is this a brand new install, an upgrade from the…
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While hopefully someone on the forums can answer you, I'd suggest also asking Stablebit directly via http://stablebit.com/contact You could also install the 1.3 beta, see if it affects the remaining time, and then uninstall and go back to 1.2 stable…
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I've discovered (in 1.2.1.7145) the balancing menu is also available from the "Server Folders and Hard Drives" tab, "Pool" sub-tab, by clicking on the pool drive: the options "Check duplication consistency", "Balancing" and "Remeasure" become availa…
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I would try disabling all balancers except for the archive optimizer and run a manual re-balance, then see if it begins behaving as intended (and if so, re-enable the others one by one as desired). If it still misbehaves, you might want to submit a …
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Is this occurring with the other balancers disabled?
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Oh, and note that the landing zone still obeys the rules for duplication, so if you have real-time duplication enabled you will need two drives for the zone (otherwise it will have to use one of the non-zone drives).
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It had its own routine to track folder sizes. I'd speculate (ie wild guess) that Alex figured that since Windows Search can do this job, why reinvent the wheel? Of course, it's not always a given that something in Windows actually does what its docu…
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@ChipMonk: if you added to the pool but set it as the landing zone for the Archive Optimizer, the result should be what I presume you intended - DP will not use for keeping files, only as a landing zone with the files moved into the "real" pool at…
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The balancing menu is not obvious, unfortunately. Click on the word "Disks" (it's beside the also-clickable word "Folders") in the Stablebit DrivePool tab of the Dashboard. Landing zone support is provided by the "Archive Optimizer" plugin, which ca…
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Yes, you could do that. With one SSD as C (System) and D (Data), and the other SSD as E (all data), and with duplication enabled, your "landing space" will be equal to the size of the smaller of D and E. With duplication off it would equal the total…