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A completely clean reinstall does require deleting (or renaming, if you want to keep it for troubleshooting purposes) the c:\programdata\stablebitdrivepool folder.
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Feeder disks are emptied by the balancer at the balancer's scheduled time. Delayed duplication runs at the time set by FileDuplication_DuplicateTime, which can be configured as an advanced setting. I don't know which would be most advantageous, sett…
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Folder sizes should still be showing, they're just now being calculated via Windows Search instead of an internal DrivePool tracker. If this is crashing, please let Alex know via http://stablebit.com/contact ?
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Did you delete the drivepool folders in both "c:\program files" and "c:\programdata" ?
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saitoh183 is correct. Hmm. If you wanted to avoid having to buy another SSD, you could try setting duplication to occur later instead of immediately (so that the duplication happens during or after balancing)?
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Hi ajafar, I'm not with Covecube (cool as that would be), I'm just a volunteer forum mod. As to your question re 2012 Essentials though, the official roadmap thread at http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/654/drivepool-1-1-and-beyond/p1 mentions tha…
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It might be an idea to stop the DrivePool service (Start, Administrative Tools, Services) before running the utility. The pool will become inaccessible until you start the service again.
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Something to note is that the standard WHS 2011 backup software has a 2TB limit. If your data to backup ever exceeds this limit, you will need to switch to something else.
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Generally after migrating you need to move the content of whatever folders you had under WHS v1's Shares - which should now be in your pool drive - to your WHS2011's shared folders. E.g. if your pool drive is "Q:" then after migrating your shares wi…
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Hi TRaSH, the official link for reporting issues can be found at http://stablebit.com/contact
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When DrivePool duplicates a file, it will use any two of the drives in the pool - normally the two with the most free space. Let's say you have six empty 500GB drives in the pool, and a folder that is going to contain four 1GB files: You put the fir…
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What happens if you restart the DrivePool services? You could also try actually removing the disk then reconnecting it again. (re your PS, yes, I believe it is - I'd rather like an option to have the pool remain writable)
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If it doesn't go away after a period of time or a reboot, I usually just delete the file manually (since Windows will recreate thumbs.db files as "needed").
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If your preferred backup software takes an image of a drive, then yes, since you've set everything duplicated you could back up the pool simply by imaging one of the two drives in the pool, and yes, once the pool has three or more drives that would …
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Do you have a very large number of small files, or a lot of fragmentation? Repeated seeks can considerably slow disk operations. Also, have you installed the manufacturer's latest chipset/sata drivers for your particular motherboard and/or controlle…
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If you're referring to WHS2011's client backups, and if they are kept in the standard WHS2011 location, then they're in which gets wiped during reinstall. You would have to manually move/copy the backup folder to a different drive to keep them. If …
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If the robocopy was somehow stripping the ADS tags as part of the sync, server2 wouldn't have them after the sync finished. What other software do you have running on server2?
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Could you repeat the comparison (enable duplication, compare, run sync, compare again) but for the ServerFolders folder instead? "dir e:\serverfolders /r" And just to check, the e: in your script is your pool drive?
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That makes sense. Hmm. DP makes use of alternate data streams to manage folder duplication. Could you make sure nothing else is running on server2, enable duplication on server2, do a "dir /r" of the pool drive root on server1 and server2 to compare…
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Hi, please see your other thread http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/748/how-can-i-preserve-my-drivepool-for-motherboard-different-replacement for a possible fix to the access denied error.
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Might be a permissions error. Run the "reset permissions" option of the WSS Troubleshoot tool - http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Utilities - and then try to remove the second partition from the pool as Saitoh183 suggests.
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Hmm. I'm not sure how, but here's a way to check for yourself: 1. Physically pull the drive, add it to a different machine, and rename its poolpart.string folder to poolpart.BAD.string or similar. (or you can stop both DrivePool services, rename it,…
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Windows Vista/7/8 support is planned for version 2.0 (although the current roadmap has 1.3, with multiple pool support, coming out first). If drivepool's fundamental architecture remains in the same vein, and I imagine it should, it will be along th…
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I shouldn't think the sync would be involved, but just to be sure, could you further describe how that's set up? E.g. does server1 push to server2, or server2 pull from server1, and is the destination a network share or the pool or a physical drive?…
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There's a newer stable release of DrivePool, 1.1.0.6326, with several improvements and fixes; you might wish to upgrade to it now that your pool is working.
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Yes, the normal removal process for a drive in the pool attempts to move the files off it to the remaining drives; if the drive is failing in such a way as to prevent this, you'll get that error (or similar). In such a case, once you've made sure yo…
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C - I all say Default ShareI says Server FOlders Videogames. That must've been the drive that I was playing around with Alcohol a few months back and moved into the pool (I gave up on Alcohol, didn't work with my games / too much effort. Back to s…
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Glad to hear you found your files. Since the tool works for you, perhaps change the drive letter of your pool to Z or similar now (and run the tool again) so that it's well away from other potential drive letters? Correct process to add a drive is t…
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If you explore L: drive, are any of your folders/data there? I'm inclined to suggest a remote support session, as we seem to have a 24 hour lag in our back-and-forth. A bit like having a radio conversation with someone at a distance over twice as fa…
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Yes, you might use the "Restore DrivePool Shares" function of the troubleshooting tool to point the shares to the new drive letter rather than put the pool back to its old drive letter. And that would almost certainly work - if that is the (only) pr…