![]() ![]() However, at the point, I may or may not decided to recover some or all of those files from my backups. From what I understand, this still would require me to manually look up and recover lost files from my back ups in the closet. In theory, if you have DrivePool cataloged in WinCatalog 2020 and you suffer a HDD failure, you can run an update on the DrivePool volume and WinCatalog 2020 will report the "deleted" files compared to its last update. WinCatalog 2020 is what I started to use just before my HDD failed. I just don't have the budget to both backup files in offline storage and then again duplicate the files in DrivePool. ![]() It appears that there are ways to mount drives in empty folders so SnapRAID can bypass the Drive Letter requirement, but it looks to me that the SnapRAID solution gets more and more complicated as you add pool drives to DrivePool.ĭuplication on DrivePool seems to be the easiest solution to recover from a HDD failure within DrivePool, but, who can afford to have a 1:1 solution on a 70TB+ pool? I already have backups of the data on HDDs stored in the closet. With 17 drives in my pool, I have turned off the drive letters because DrivePool does not need them. Also, from what I understand, SnapRAID accesses drives via drive letters. SnapRAID might work for some people as adding a parity solution to the pool for recovery, but that means dedicating additional disks to the pool just to hold the parity data. Now, like many before me, I am wondering what was actually on that failed drive and do I want to recover the lost pool files from my backups. Problem: My disk monitoring software warned me about an imminent HDD failure. I immediately attempted to remove the disk from DrivePool, but all attempts to move data off that disk failed and the drive completely crashed in less than 12 hours. I recently lost a 5TB HDD in a pool of 17 drives, all of different brands, sizes, ages. No duplication is used on DrivePool for the media files. Original media files are backed up and stored on HDDs in the closet. Background: DrivePool is used as my unduplicated home media storage server for Plex/Kodi. ![]()
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