I'm wondering if I'll need to back up my data and rebuild the pool if I format / start from scratch a new server. Or can I install drive pool and it will pick up the previous pool setup if the drives are in the system?
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Setting up a new server - do I have to redo drive pool
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DrivePool Beta Version and Windows File Cache
Hi!
I'm using DrivePool on my Windows Home Server 2011 for almost 2 years now and it works great so far. Thank you so much for that great piece of software.
I wanted to try out the latest beta version because I've read in the forum, that it contains the latest bugfixes. The beta works fine (2.2.0.738_x64_BETA) and it seems a reboot of my server runs faster with the beta.
On the other hand reading of files with the beta version runs very slow. Usually a scan of my music files with Logitech Media Server takes appr. 2 hours when DrivePool release version is installed. With the the beta version the scan of music files takes more than 12(!) hours).
With the beta version there's the tab missing for activating Windows Cache in the properties of "Covecube Virtual Disk" in the device manager. After reinstalling the release version of DrivePool, everything works again as expected and the missing tab in the properties of "Covecube Virtual Disk" is back again.
Is there any (not dangerous) possibility to activate the Windows Cache with the beta version? Of course I understand if not... because it's beta.
Thanks a lot.
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Startup issues (Coming from Flexraid)
Hi guys,
Im just posting this to get a feel for how to configure this, I have for the last couple of years used Flexraid Pooling for my drives, as I really only need it to put together the drives into a single fileshare, this has been quite okay so far but im starting to feel the urge to test something new.
DrivePool appears to allow me to add some SSDs as write cache, however I cannot seem to figure out how to get this working smoothly, sometimes it would flush to the drives, other times it wouldn't - The most recent one before giving up for now it stated that it flushed all data, but the data remained on the SSD but the folder for the file was created on all 4 drives at the same time, one drive had the "subs" folder for the movie, another had the .nfo file but the actual files were still on the SSD.
What im looking for here, is basically a way to let everything land on the SSD, when that gets to about ~70% used it will start flushing the oldest data onto the drives, filling the drives up one by one until the threshold that I set in settings, but it appears that there's so many duplicate places to define this.
Can someone please help me here? I just need this as a basic pooling option, no need for duplication or anything like that as I already have backups in place for the important data.
In the future, I would like to use clouddrive with a google drive linked to it as a duplication destination, but it appears to not be working as intended, it will randomly drop duplicated data on the local drives aswell even though I have set them for unduplicated data only, if someone can point me in the right direction on that matter it would be awesome aswell!
Thanks!
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Need help - I think my pool is no longer functional
I'm having serious issues with my pool since trying to move to Server 2016. I should have not bothered as I had working server but I guess hate myself. The worse that could happen though has occurred. Drive Pool does not work properly anymore. I'm now back on 2012 after an image restore but nothing has been fixed. There are some serious issues going on at the moment...
1) It looks like paths are not correct anymore across the drives.
a ) If I check the folder size at a parent folder, it will be reported incorrectly. If I go into the folder its fine
b ) Network shares are not displaying correctly. For example, a videos share should show 5 folders but it's only showing 1 folder. This folder itself should have many folders within but that also has one folder
2) I cannot move files from the pool
3) It's not clear to me what Drive Pool needs to do after an install - does it need to go through a process of rebuilding? It seems to be calculating at the moment but taking a long time. I don't care if it takes a day and it works but it's not clear to me what I should expect. If the expectation is that I can't do anything with the folders (that seems to be the case), that probably should be a warning in the app. Even better would be some sort of indication that it's actually going through some process - % count down etc.
I don't know what to do
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Need help - I think my pool is no longer functional (might be ok now)
I'm having serious issues with my pool since trying to move to Server 2016. I should have not bothered as I had working server but I guess hate myself. The worse that could happen though has occurred. Drive Pool does not work properly anymore. I'm now back on 2012 after an image restore but nothing has been fixed. There are some serious issues going on at the moment...
1) It looks like paths are not correct anymore across the drives.
a ) If I check the folder size at a parent folder, it will be reported incorrectly. If I go into the folder its fine
b ) Network shares are not displaying correctly. For example, a videos share should show 5 folders but it's only showing 1 folder. This folder itself should have many folders within but that also has one folder
2) I cannot move files from the pool
3) It's not clear to me what Drive Pool needs to do after an install - does it need to go through a process of rebuilding? It seems to be calculating at the moment but taking a long time. I don't care if it takes a day and it works but it's not clear to me what I should expect. If the expectation is that I can't do anything with the folders (that seems to be the case), that probably should be a warning in the app. Even better would be some sort of indication that it's actually going through some process - % count down etc.
I don't know what to do
UPDATE - I think it might be ok. This was likely due to just not understanding what actually happens when switching / upgrading the OS. The drives might have been just busy but would be great if someone can comment
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What is the appropriate way of handling an OS switch with a drive pool?
I'm not sure yet if I lost any data but if I didn't I'd like to still try to move to Server 2016 Essentials. What isn't clear is what the best practice is to switch OS
1) Do I disconnect the drives when I do a clean install of Server 2016?
2) After the OS is installed, do I just immediately install drive pool and it expect it to pick up the drives?
3) Is there anything I should be (or not) doing after the initial installation of Drive Pool? Like should the pool be left alone as it is discovering the files?
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Release Notes for new betas?
Chris
Are there any release notes published (have done a bit of looking around) as cant find them
I see with DP the latest is 739
I generally just upgrade as one becomes available as (crossed fingers) have not had an issue with upgrading
but as my pool if 75% full now i am getting a little more cautious of what i do to the server
Hence interested in whats been fixed / changed
Thanks
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problem with drivepool/licensing
So ive set up my drivepool on a windows 2k12server using a trial version.
i used another copy to administer it. And everything worked perfectly 
Then the trial license went out. Fair enough, i bought a license.
But now im stuck and think something is broken.
i get a icon in the system tray to look at licensing.
I then get a pop-up to open drivepool. but then nothing happens.
Tried reinstalling, but that didnt change anything.
The faq points to a license wizzard. but that ends in a 404 page 
So what should i do ?
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Network drives from within a virtual machine?
I'm wanting to check something before I start working on a project; Currently I'm running DrivePool with 4 drives on a Windows 10 machine. I want to convert this machine to a Linux host, install Windows 10 as a guest using VirtualBox, share my four drives to have read/write access between the host/guest machine, and then run DrivePool from within the Windows 10 guest to manage these drives. Virtualbox mounts the shared drives as network drives.
Does anyone see possible issues with using DrivePool in this way? I don't have a huge performance demand, so read/write delays are OK. I'm just more worried about DrivePool even being able to manage networked drives in this way. I enjoy the product and find it an effective alternative to what I was using RAID for. I also have to much data on these four drives to off-load and re-establish as a RAID array under Linux. So I'm trying to do a work around to allow me to continue using the program within a virtual machine, with a few other Windows only programs I can't part with.
Also, with the above example, would I need to remove the drives from my pool prior to reformatting the current Windows machine? Or would DrivePool find the data when I re-add them as a new pool, once everything is setup under the VirtualBox guest machine?
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Drive Letters and Balancing
New user here who is keen to move to DrivePool and SnapRAID from FlexRAID as it seems more transparent and better supported. On a trial for DrivePool and Scanner at the moment and have hit a couple of areas that I would like to get a bit of advice on before going any further:
1. The initial Drivepool setup has chosen a drive letter that I want to change. I have now filled the pool quite a bit, and added a couple of shared folders, is it still as simple as making the adjustment in Disk Management or do I need to follow a more complex procedure?
2. When changing drive letters (or any other disk tasks) do I need to exit DrivePool or Scanner? To close either down is there anything more to it than the top right X as Scanner still seems to show notifications after the window is closed, but there is no right click menu in the notification tray icon.
3. When cutting and pasting folders round inside a drive pool, am I right in thinking by default it keeps the files on the same drive and just moves them to a matching folder on that drive? Interested as the moving seemed instant at the time.
4. Given my intended setup of using with SnapRAID, I do not want the drives changing the location of existing data regularly. What I would ideally like to do is run a balancing process once when the majority of my data is moved across, then have Drivepool only balance new data it is adding. What would be the best method to achieve this? I can see the Disk Space Equalizer plugin which I am guessing installing, running then removing will get the balance sorted, what is the best settings for the balancing after that?
Thanks in advance for any advice 
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Drivepool conflict with Windows 10 Windows Defender?
I have been happily using Drivepool on Windows 10 for many months. Had some problems but they were not Drivepool's, just bad drives.
Then I tried to do a deep virus scan using Windows Defender. I had roughly 1 million files across all of my drives, but Windows Defender happily kept scanning for 24 hours and 4 million "files" before I decide to call it quits. Doing a Norton scan from a bootable USB stick confirmed the approx 1 million files and gave my drives a clean bill of health (no viruses or other malware).
So I am left wondering what happened, and suspecting that the drivepool virtual drive might confuse Windows Defender.
1) Has anybody reported a similar problem?
2) Does anybody at Covecube have interest in doing further troubleshooting to confirm/reject the problem being Drivepool confusing Window Defender? If yes, feel free to contact me through the email in my registration.
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Full folder duplication on some drives and partial on others possible?
I have a 6 drive pool. 4 local HDD's & 2 CloudDrives (1 Amazon & 1 MS).
I'd like to duplicate 2 folders in the pool. I'd like both Cloud Drive to keep a full set of the duplicated folders and I'd like 3 of the 4 local disks to keep a partial set of the duplicated folders.
Reasoning behind this is that I'd like full duplicated folder sets on the cloud storage for recovery if needed, but don't want to tie up the space with 3 full sets of duplicated folders on the local disk.
Possible?
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File Placement Rules Not Working
Hi guys,
I've set up my file placement rules to only allow files in a folder to go into a particular drive. In this case it's a CloudDrive drive. I'm finding that it's not following the rule and it just randomly putting it in any drive. Does anyone know if this is the correct behaviour or whether it's not right. I essentially only want files in a certain folder to only ever be put in a particular drive.
I've configured it so that underneath the file placement options I only have the one drive I want it to put the file on, checked.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Phillip
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Remove Disk "Access Denied"
Looks like I've now myself run into this issue. I can't remove ANY drive from my pool, as I run into this Access Denied wall. I've tried to run the permission fixer, and that also fails with "Access Denied". I've turned all balancers off, problem persists.
WHS 2011
DP Version 2.2.0.737
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Drive Pool on WHS 2011 - Drive Order/Replacing Drives
Hi,
I just had a brief lapse of attention as I was doing some maintenance on my Windows Home Server. I removed the drives, top to bottom - and use some compressed air to blow the dust out of the fans. As I put the drives back in, I went in reverse order putting them back in.
Now, I'm 90 percent sure I put them in the same order they were removed and 100% sure the system drive is in the same slot. But, I see my numbering is off - I have these numbered 1-4. Now, there is a chance I didn't originally have these in the numeric order, they have been inserted 1, 3, 2, 4 which, is possibly how they were, for some reason.
In the event these weren't inserted in the correct order, is this going to cause an issue with my data/drive pool?? As I mentioned, I know the system drive is correct but the 2 & 3 drives 'might' be rearranged.
Conflicts/issues - or, not an issue if they are out of order? Waiting to restart!
Thanks!!
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Question about balancing...
Is it possible to ensure that a folder structure like this...
videos\movies\movie\5-7 files for the movie
That the 5-7 files are in the same folder when duplicated instead of scattered?
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Pool file duplication 2x + CloudDrive (only some folder duplication)
Hello,
I have the pool (file duplication 2x) and now I would like to add to this pool the CloudDrive, but only for some folders.
So, only some folders from the pool will be duplicated (3x) in the the CloudDrive.
How to do this?
Thank you in advance.
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MBR to GPT Partioion change
I've got a couple of 4tb drives in my pool that were migrated from a very old WHS setup. When the drives were initialised on that system they were initialised as MBR disks limiting them to 2tb (I didn't realise at the time!) Now that I have them spinning in my Drivepool setup I want to extend the partition on the drive to full capacity but to do that I will have to convert it to a GPT drive. There are tools that will let me do that without data loss but my question is:
Will either the conversion to GPT OR the change in partition size cause Drivepool not to recognise the drive?
Should I terminate the drivepool service whilst making this change (or perhaps more reliably restart with 'startup' set to disabled)?
Cheers,
Andrew
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DrivePool not showing all drives
Cheers Guys,
i am a total noob and i am just using CloudDrive and DrivePool for a couple days. I am very happy with CloudDrive but DrivePool just gives me tons of issues.
The biggest atm is that i am not seeing my CloudDrives in DrivePool so i cannot pool them. Local Drives are all there but the 2 CloudDrives are not. Rebooting and detaching and readding does not help.
Another thing that i struggle with is when i remove the drivepool and re-add it then it is empty. I checked the local drives and the poolparts are there. For some odd reason DrivePool just does not add them back.
I hope i am doing some total rookie mistake and this is easily fixed. I am using Windows 10 64Bit and DrivePool is 2.1.1.561 and CloudDrive is 1.0.0.802.
Kind Regards,
Patrick
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Remote Management not working
I have remote management enabled on my server. I installed Stablebit on my laptop, chose a 30 trail license and when I click the pulldown for what machine to manage my server does not show up. I perform the same action from my server and it does not see my laptop which also has remote management enabled. No 3rd party firewall involved and I verified there is a rule in the windows firewall for Stablebit. Should I have used my actual license? I was under the impression remote management didn't require a license at all. Both machines are running 2.2.0.651 BETA
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