StableBit DrivePool Q5463715

Migrate your WHS v1 data over to WHS 2011 with DrivePool.

When to Use

If you have a lot of data in WHS v1 and you don't want to spend the time copying it over to a new serve. You can use this procedure to move the files directly onto the pool.

This is an advanced procedure. Only proceed if you fully understand every step below.

Please have backups of all your data.

Steps

1. Disconnect all the WHS v1 drives from the old machine.
2. Connect them to the new WHS 2011 machine.
3. Boot WHS 2011 and log in as Administrator using remote desktop (Follow: Q7200705).
4. Now, add all the WHS v1 drives to the pool (no need to format / erase them).
   This will not alter their existing contents.
   
   All this does is create a new "PoolPart..." folder on them, nothing more.
5. Next, create all the necessary directories on the pool using the Dashboard and set their duplication level.
   You'd want to mimic the old WHS v1 shared folders.
6. Stop the StableBit DrivePool system service. We'll be shuffling some folders around now under the covers.
7. Expose hidden folders in your file manager of choice (Windows Explorer, or Total Commander, etc...).
8. Go through each of the old WHS v1 drives and manually move the folders from "/DE/shares/..." to "/PoolPart.(Something)/ServerFolders/..."
   
   The "..." would be the folder name. So if you had a "Videos" folder, you would move it from "/DE/shares/Videos" to "/PoolPart.(Something)/ServerFolders/Videos".
   
   Basically, on each drive, find the WHS v1 folder with your old data on it and simply move it into the correct DrivePool folder . Since you're simply moving a folder on the same volume, it should be a very quick process.
   
   You would need to do this for each of your old drives.
   
   WHS v1 and DrivePool both store data in NTFS files, so just moving from their pool into our pool works.
   
   Never delete anything, just move!
   
   After you move all the folders you should see all of your files on the pool drive.
9. Reset the DrivePool metadata by deleting everything in:
   C:\ProgramData\StableBitDrivePool\Service\Store
10. Start the StableBit DrivePool service.

This will verify the duplication integrity of the pool and re-measure all the files. Now open the Dashboard and apply new folder permissions for each of the shared folders.

Since your old permissions will be invalid, you might have to re-populate the permissions for all the files in each shared folder.

You can do this from Windows Explorer. Right click on folder, properties -> Security tab -> Advanced -> Change Permission -> Check "Replace all child permissions ..." -> apply.

This might take a while. You're done.