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Not working for new user

August 31, 2017, 9:33 pm
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Just purchased DrivePool and Scanner.  DrivePool doesn't seem to be working for me.  I have a simple setup, 2 4TB disks, F: and G:.  F: has data, G: is empty.  I've added them both to a pool (DrivePool (I:)) and set them up for pool file duplication but nothing is duplicated.  In the file explorer G: has folders, PoolPart.69b1b0b9-ec3e-4d68-b763-091ae3cf340b and PoolPart.074c5ac1-95e9-4345-a513-e2f61a9e17a1 but no data.

 

In explorer DrivePool (I:) only shows the Recycle Bin.  Is this normal?

 

I had also created a second DrivePool and then removed it.  It seems gone from DrivePool but Explorer still shows DrivePool(J:) and it can't be deleted.

 

thanks,

-tom

 

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why not use the other copy on read error

September 1, 2017, 2:37 pm
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I've noticed DrivePool gets stuck some times if the disk it's trying to read from has a problem.  I'm currently looking at Windows Events 7 & 153, the first read error was at 1:52pm and it is now 2:30pm and the Event log keeps writing new 153s and 7s.  The DrivePool GUI is hung, the Disk Management snap-in won't load, and other machines on the network can't read or write to the share of this pool.

 

My question is, why can't DrivePool give up and read from the other copy of the file?  I'm sure the Scanner would eventually tell me I have a bad drive and I could deal with it, but neither DrivePool or Scanner seem to know anything is wrong at the moment.

 

 

My instance of DrivePool 2.1.1.561 is on on win server 2012 R2

There is only one Pool and the whole thing to set to Duplicate data.

 

Windows Event 153: The IO operation at logical block address [some address] for Disk [some disk] (PDO name: \Device\[some device]]) was retried.

Windows Event 7: The device, \Device\Harddisk[some disk]\DR##, has a bad block.

 

 

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Pool Order

September 2, 2017, 1:04 pm
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Is it possible to reorder the way the pools appear in the UI and/or the order in which they are measured?

 

At the moment my large G Pool is listed first in the UI and is re-measured first whenever is considered inconsistent.

 

I'd like my smaller D pool to be first in the UI and "Next Pool" would take me to the G pool.  D is more important, would re-measure quicker, and D comes before G in the alphabet.

 

Thanks,

David

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Delete Drivepool

September 2, 2017, 4:22 pm
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Hey I am not very happy with drive pool after I lost a lot of files and was not able to recover anything. I would like to uninstall Drivepool but i'm not sure how to go about it to retain all files.

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New user: Oddity migrating files with "Max path length" error

September 4, 2017, 2:17 pm
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Hi there.

 

New user evaluating DrivePool to replace my cheap and aging RAID5 enclosure attached to a WHS2011. I simply used drag and drop to move some of my shared folders from  "H:\ServerFolders\" to "K:\Shared Folders\" and got a few errors about not being able to copy due to file path name being too long. After clicking skip and letting it finish I noticed about 300GB had failed to copy out of 1.5TB. 

 

Now I doubt chances are I was living at the extreme end of the file path limit with 300GB of data and that single character extra put me over, so I had a question:

 

1) How does drivepool handle saving long (but not over windows limit) file structures to the virtualpool  drive when it then has to go append "PoolPart.ef564dc2-9e4d-4302-91bb-3bb3cef750cc5" at the beginning when saving the structure to a real drive and then being too long for windows to save? 

 

I'm now trying to move the data with this robocopy command :robocopy "H:\ServerFolders" "K:\Shared Folders" /MIR /ZB /SEC /R:10 /W:10 /V /TEE /LOG:xcopy.txt  and so far i haven't seen any errors flash by, but would it be better to migrate using that command over gui drag and drop? 

 

Bill

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NTFS compression and failed drive

September 5, 2017, 1:22 pm
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Hello everyone!

 

Another happy user of Drivepool with a question regarding NTFS compression and file evacuation. A few days ago I started having reallocated sectors counters on one drive. Stablebit scanner ordered drivepool to evacuate all the files, but there was not enough space so some of them remained.

 

I bought another drive, which I added to the pool, and tried to remove the existing one, getting an "Access is Denied" error. Afterwards, I tried to force evacuation of files from the damaged drive using the appropriate option in the Stablebit scanner. This triggered a rebalance operation which was going very well, but then I notice several hundreds of GB marked as "Other" not being moved.

 

Then it stroked to me that the new drive has some files without NTFS compression, whereas the old drives in the pool did have. I think somehow since the checksums are not the same for compressed and uncompressed files this is somehow confusing the scanner. What I did so far (for consistency at least, hope this doesn't make things worse!!!) is to disable compression from all the folders I had it enabled (from the old drives, including the faulty one) and wait for the rebalance to complete.

 

Is this the right approach? Is this also expected to happen when using NTFS compression? In drivepool is actually not worth the hassle to have it enabled? (I was getting not fantastic savings, but hey! every little helps, and wasn't noticing perf. degradation). Hope the post somehow makes sense and also hope my data is not compromised for taking the wrong steps! Thanks!

 

DrivePool version: 2.2.0.738 Beta

Scanner: 2.5.1.3062

OS: Windows 2016

 

Attached DrivePool screenshot as well

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Questions regarding the pooling mechanics

September 8, 2017, 7:33 am
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Hi, I'm evaluating StableBit Drivepool in a possible Windows NAS build. 

 

There's two things I'm wondering about:

Is it possible to make sure StableBit Drive pool puts all files in a folder on the same disk/place. Let's take a pictures library for example with bunch of subfolders etc. I then in the future for some reason need to take off some drive and insert into another Windows PC, I don't want those files to be scattered all around other disks etc. So is it possible that Drive Pool can be told to store files by default in the same place and it would alert me if there's no space left to do the operation for the drive that has the "pictures" folder on it in this case.

 

How does mirroring works like with an USB drive that I'd only plug in manually occassionally to do mirror backups, does the program go nuts if the mirror disk isn't found or how does it work?

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Duplication problems

September 8, 2017, 9:50 am
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Hi folks,

I'm running a single pool consisting of around 16 x 2TB drives, and with the data they hold - with pool duplication - the total size is 21TB. Every few days, a sizeable chunk (2-3 TB) of that data drops out of duplication and so Drivepool dutifully goes to work re-duplicating it. All is good again, but then it happens again in a few days. I try to keep up to date with the latest beta releases, but I just wondered if this is a known issue?

(Windows 10 Pro (1703), Active Plug-Ins : #1 SSD Optimizer & #2 Disk Space Equalizer (by % used))

Thanks,

Bob
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Harddisk failure and problems (with duplication?)

September 9, 2017, 1:40 am
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Hi! I lost a drive yesterday And so far I'm a bit anxious about what the outcome is going to be. The entire pool disappeared and after some reboots of my HDD enclosure I found the culprit for my problems; one of my Reds had lost its partition and it comes up as "raw" in diskmanager. I actually had to take the drive out of the enclosure and check it on my desktop computer to be able to communicate with the harddisk. I'm currently doing a recover of the files on this drive using EaseUS Data Recovery and hopefully I'll get the files back from this drive.

 

What surprised me is that when the drive failed while inside my pool, DP managed to delete a lot of files(propably duplicates, don't know yet) and my pool went from having approx 700GB of free space to 9,5TB. My total pool size including the broken disk is 44TB.

 

Does anyone have some thought on to why this happened?

 

Update: One of my movie folders has an error and DP can not access it or read it. This folder is on one of the Archive disks. This is the second time I have problems with my Archive disks. 

 

Roger J.

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What is folder duplication and how does it differ from file duplication

September 9, 2017, 11:03 am
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The concept seems kinda wonky to me. Could someone explain it for me?

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Is Drive Pool able to duplicate over network (subnet is fine) to another computer?

September 9, 2017, 12:31 pm
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Does the duplication have to be done on the host computer or does it offer the possibility to duplicate (manually at preconfigured settings at a click of a button or to be scheduled) to another computer (for me personally mostly on the same home network is of interest)?

 

Reason I'm asking is that my new fileserver I prefer to maximize the storage (4 slots) on the NAS and partially that I think it's good to have a copy also on another device in case of whatever critical failure the NAS has or potentially a virus etc.

 

So I'd want to have the backup on my workstation computer that I can run either scheduled or manually every now and then when I'm not busy doing other stuff, I don't necessarily fancy the idea to always instantly updating the mirror copy, for me say even having a 1 month or so old copy would be fine probably.

 

I know some other backup/sync software allows encrypted transfer mirroring over network (I've got experience of such software) but I'm interesting in the "pooling" part of Drive Pool as well as the simplicity. If it doesn't support it, I guess you could take this as a suggestion as I really like the software what I'm reading about it on the paper so maybe I could switch over sometimes in the future. :)

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Acronis and Drive Pool Share

September 11, 2017, 3:40 pm
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Can anyone think of a reason why why Acronis True Image 2018 would not be able to back up selected pool folders? Just sits there 'calculating time remaining'. Removed the program, started from scratch. Works fine for any other disk in the machine except the DrivePool.

 

 

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moving (cut&paste) files inside pool starts an actual copy action ??

September 12, 2017, 11:59 am
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OK, this is strange, maybe someone can clarify a bit...

 

I did a file move (using explorer, doing cut&paste) of a bunch of files.

The move was from one folder into another, inside the pool drive.

-> that was an instantaneous action , as expected.

 

A couple of minutes later, I moved the same files into another folder of the pool

-> this time, the whole bunch of 90+MBytes gets actually copied  :huh:

 

...both actions were done locally, only working with the pool drive.

What is going on here, I don't understand that kind of behavior ?

 

regards,

     Fred

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Beta 844-The background service failed to start

September 12, 2017, 6:45 pm
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I just updated to beta 844 after receiving the upgrade notification. I have restarted twice, and I am getting the background service failed to start message in the Dashboard. I will use the Stablebit Troubleshooter and then try resetting the settings as you advised the user reporting the same problem with the 822 beta. 

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844 beta - CPU usage

September 14, 2017, 8:32 am
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Reading the notes for the recent beta's i was expecting the cpu usage of the UI for DP to be less

 

With no balancing etc running its sitting between 5% and 15% - i.e. it doing something but there is no access to the pool drives

 

this is with an i7 so its using most of a single core - although the cpu is only running at 1 GHz (speed step) rather than 3.2GHz

 

this is on 2012r2

 

Wondering what its actually doing as there is no indication in the UI that its doing anything?

 

on win10 - creators update 844 is only using 0.1 to 1.0% again on a i7

 

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Sort Pools by Name

September 14, 2017, 8:46 am
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Any chance the "Sort pools by Name" could support by Drive letter as an option?

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* Force deletion of the recycling bin, "System Volume Information", and .covefs folders when a pool part is being removed.
  (deal with invalid ACLs and read-only attributes).
* Perform background duplication after measuring completes, if it's inconsistent.
* Sort pools by name.
* [D] Fixed hierarchical pool part duplication tags. Hierarchical pool part duplication tags will reset.
* Fixed pooled disk list UI flicker.
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Removing the SSD cache - causes permission errors on a duplicated folder

September 14, 2017, 1:29 pm
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So I noticed severe drops in speed on my storage space SSDs, and wanted to check it out. My disk images where doing their thing to archive folders [since the ssds had not been balanced out for the whole day, another strange issue], and when I removed the SSDs from DP, Trueimage comes back saying it gets access denied. Trying to create a new folder on that windows share gave permission errors.

 

DP now has permission denied from within the OS as well.

 

Troubleshooter uploading now to get you guys some view, but so far it seems I might have to stop using DP when the trial ends :(

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Permissions problem (solved)

September 14, 2017, 2:39 pm
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So today I started having some permissions issues (or at lest this is when I noticed them).

 

I went to create a new folder on my pool drive and got an permission denied error.  I thought..hmm....I am admin on this account, this can't be good.  Looked at the Windows 10 Pro SECURITY settings on the folder and files and they seemed correct.  I was stumped.  Man, what changed?  I had no idea other than maybe something was up with DrivePool.  I could create folders on other drives without issue.  Noticed that the icon for DrivePool was displaying in the system tray and opened it to find that the license key was no longer there, it was asking me to transfer the license.  What?  Then I remember, yesterday I did a BIOS upgrade.  The transfer of the license worked, and all started working again.

 

I had no idea that a BIOS update could cause this, but that is the only correlation i could come up with that change from when I last knew it worked to today.

 

So, just FYI all.

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File balancing

September 15, 2017, 3:41 am
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Hi

 

I have a question. When reading "copying" files from a diskpool that has 2x mirror file copy and striping active. Then the disk will act as a raid 0 and read from both disks and give greater speed results. That awsome but my question is if there is an alternative to that when copying to the disk pool?

 

For example

 

I have a diskpool with 2x balancing. I have 4 files 1GB in size per file. Say file1, file2 etc.

Is it possible for Drivepool to copy two of the files to one disk and the rest to another disk to speed up the process. It will then balance the files between disks.

 

So the base question is can drivepool act as a RAID 0 when copying to as it does when copying from.

 

I know it´s not a raid controller but the concept is the same.

 

Best regards

Alex

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About Hierarchical Pooling

September 15, 2017, 7:34 am
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From here: http://blog.covecube.com/2017/09/stablebit-drivepool-2-2-0-847-beta/

 

I am a bit confused, this example tells about existing DATA that is already stored locally. But lets say I want to add a CloudPool as backup within a new Hierarchical Pool, I need to move everything from the current pool into the Hierarchical pool? (Since it is a new pool i guess so)

 

But is there a way to leave (in my case) 40TB of data but add a Clouddrive as a backup without moving the data at all?

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