Not Happy - "Your licence needs to be transferred"
I just recently moved over my Pool from my old Windows Server 2012 R2 VM, to my new Windows Server 2016 VM I left the old fileserver on, because I need to move over a lot of other configurations and...
View ArticleRemoving a disk
Perhaps this isn't a much needed feature, but is there a way to remove a disk from the pool without moving data around? I had 4x 1TB disks in the pool which I've copied to a single 4TB disk. I want...
View ArticlePool completely lost
Hi, I've had a bit of a weird situation here hopefully someone can help with. MY brother's HP Microserver running 4 disks and just 1 pool. The server was powered off, probably by someone pulling out...
View ArticleBalance option - Stablebit Scanner
Drashna, I have a 8TB drive about 75% full that is damaged according to Stablebit Scanner. It has about 9,173,295 sectors that are unreadable. If I have put the Stablebit Scanner Balancer add-in to...
View ArticleDuplicating Drives - unusable for duplication
Hi everyone I have a drive with 10TB of data duplicating with another empty drive in a Drivepool. It's been transferring for a few days now, going between balancing and duplicating etc... Slowly...
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New to DrivePool - Sanity Check
I am moving to DrivePool from FlexRaid for a number of reasons. I currently have 10 drives, mix of filled and empty. I have the pool up and running and am currently running the duplication and...
View ArticleError adding drive to pool, "can't add the same drive twice". The...
I've been having problems for the last many weeks with DP getting seemingly stuck while duplicating. I've done more than one "clean install". Tried a beta from Chris. Nothing is working. I just did...
View ArticleHELP! Accidentally deleted large number of .iso files from DP -
I accidentally deleted a number of .iso files from my drive pool. Can anyone recommend a program / procedure that will help recover from pool part? Appreciate any responses...
View ArticleBasic backup system
I am looking to purchase Drive Pool, etc. I work on a Surface Pro 3 and an iMac. Don't have a NAS and not sure I really want to get that complicated. Thinking of buying a couple Seagate 8TB...
View ArticleA new pool always starts off as an empty drive.
The title is taken from the user manual. Indeed I combined 3 hard drives in my pool, but when I click on it in Windows Explorer, its empty. I should eventually see those files appearing in the...
View ArticleHelp with a few questions
Hi, been using Drivepool for a number of years. I have been using Folder duplication and setting the duplication levels on each folder manually. If i now enable Pool Duplication what will happen...
View ArticleHow to "secure" my Drivepool?
Hi, I've recently suffered another drive failure, which is causing me to re-evaluate how I secure my data. This is my current set up: - Replaceable files (media, remuxed blu-rays etc.) are stored...
View ArticleDuplication inconsistent - tried many of the published recipes on here already
Just added two new 8TB HDD to my pool. All seemed OK before the addition. After the addition, balancing will not start and I have a "Duplication inconsistent" message. Here is what I have tried so far:...
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DrivePool Showing Statistics Incomplete Because of CloudDrive
I've been having issues for the past few days with DrivePool showing "Statistics are Incomplete" in the GUI. It seems to be the issue is the CloudDrive I have in there because it is showing "Other"...
View Articlehow can I migrade the pool to another system?
the system the drive pool is on is increasingly problematic, I think i can run it long enough for the migration to get off of the internal drives. how can i transfer the whole set to another machine?
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Cache hard drive problem
Hey guys i have a quick question, I currently have a unlimited google account and i wanted to upload my movie collection for plex. At the moment im transferring some files to the google hard drive but...
View ArticleDrivepool general question
OK im fairly new to this drivepool thing, so lets say i have a empty hard drive and I drivepool it so basically makes a virtual hard drive that I could transfer stuff but will my files be secure...
View ArticleDrivepool duplicating to only Clouddrive..
Hello, I've created a CloudDrive connecting to Google Drive, then added the created disk. I would like to duplicate the existing data to just the CloudDrive (essentially creating a 1:1 physical to...
View ArticleHuge folder decided to unduplicated
Excuse the title typo! My TV Shows folder which is around 6TB just decided to switch itself from 2x to 1x. I noticed when I saw that I had over 12TB free space, and panicked that I lost a bunch of...
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