Manage your storage pools by clicking on the storage pool in the File System page.



From this panel, you can edit the storage pool's information.




Manage Storage Pool for Sync


GENERAL

Storage Pool Fields

  • Name - The name of the storage pool.
  • Comment - An optional comment for the storage pool.
  • Cloud Storage Group - The Cloud Storage Group to which this pool belongs.
  • Enable Multicloud - If this pool uses more than one Cloud Store, use this option to enable multicloud redundancy.
    • All shares in the pool will use the same redundancy option.
    • Archive pools cannot use multi-cloud redundancy.
    • BackBlaze pools do not support this option.


ADVANCED - Versioning




ADVANCED - Prefetch


  • Enable Prefetch - Make the prefetch option available for shares in this pool. Prefetch forces CacheDrives to download all new files when they are created instead of when they are accessed.

    For more information on the prefetch feature, please see the following article:

    How do I force a CacheDrive to always fetch new files in a share?



ADVANCED - Multicloud


Use Multicloud to add another Cloud Storage Group to a pool for redundancy or data migration.


Two options are available:

  • Add Redundancy - To backup the files in the pool to another Cloud Storage Group, enable "Add Redundancy" to add another Cloud Storage Group to the pool. All new and existing files in the pool will be stored in both Cloud Storage Groups.
  • Migrate Objects To New CSG - To replace the current Cloud Storage Group with another, enable the "Migrate Objects To New CSG" option. Existing files in the pool will be backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage Group and new files will be uploaded to the newly added Cloud Storage Group exclusively.  Once all of the files in the pool have been migrated to the newly added Cloud Storage Group, the old Cloud Storage Group can be removed from the pool.



Add Redundant Cloud Storage to the Pool


Click the "Add Redundancy" button on the Multicloud page to add a Cloud Storage Group to the pool for redundancy.  All new and existing files in the pool will be stored in both Cloud Storage Groups.


The following options are available when adding redundancy to a pool:

  • Cloud Storage Group to be added - Select a Cloud Storage Group to add to this pool.
  • Only latest version for existing files - When this option is enabled, only the latest versions of existing files will be backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage Group.  When this option is disabled, all versions of existing files will be backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage Group.
  • Gateway - Select a CacheDrive to back up the existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage Group.
  • Status - The status of the backup process for existing files in the pool.
  • Schedule - The schedule for the backup process for existing files in the pool.


Set the options as need, set the schedule for the backup of existing files, then click the "OK" button.  The selected CacheDrive will back up existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage Group according to the schedule.



Migrate Objects To New CSG


Click the "Migrate Objects To New CSG" button to migrate existing files in the pool from the current Cloud Storage Group to another Cloud Storage Group.  All versions of existing files in the pool will be backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage Group.  New files will be uploaded to the newly added Cloud Storage Group exclusively.


There are some options when selecting a new Cloud Storage to replace the current Cloud Storage:

  • Cloud Storage Group to migrate - Select a new Cloud Storage Group to replace the current Cloud Storage.
  • Gateway - Select a CacheDrive to back up the existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage Group.
  • Status - The status of the backup process for existing files in the pool.
  • Schedule - The schedule for the backup process for existing files in the pool.


Set the options as need, set the schedule for the backup of existing files, then click the "OK" button.  The selected CacheDrive will back up existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage Group according to the schedule.


Resume Now


If the data migration to the newly added Cloud Storage Groups fails, click the "Resume Now" button to resume the process manually.


Once all of the files in the pool have been backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage Group, you can remove the old Cloud Storage Group from the pool to complete the replacement process.



Delete CSG


After all existing files with versions in the pool have been backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage Group, the "Delete CSG" button will appear.  Use this button to remove the old Cloud Storage Group from the pool.


For "Add Redundancy", disable redundancy by selecting one Cloud Storage Group to remove.

For "Migrate Object To New CSG", remove the old Cloud Storage Group to complete the replacement of the old Cloud Storage Group.



Select Primary Storage for Multicloud

  • Select Primary Storage - Set the primary Cloud Storage Group for uploads and downloads for each CacheDrive.
    • All CacheDrives that map at least one share in this pool will be shown on this page.
    • When uploading a file, the CacheDrive will upload to the primary Cloud Storage Group first, then immediately upload to the secondary Cloud Storage Group.
    • Once files have been uploaded to both Cloud Storage Groups, they can be downloaded from the CacheDrive's primary Cloud Storage Group. If downloading from the primary Cloud Storage Group fails, the CacheDrive will attempt to download from the secondary Cloud Storage Group.
  • Defer Upload to Secondary 
    • If "Defer upload to secondary" is enabled, files are uploaded to the primary Cloud Storage Group normally, but files will not be uploaded to the secondary Cloud Storage Group until all files in the queue have been uploaded to the primary Cloud Storage Group.
    • Once a file has been uploaded to the primary Cloud Storage Group, the file can be downloaded from a CacheDrive's primary or secondary Cloud Storage Group.
    • Defer Upload to Secondary is supported only by sync shares.



Manage Storage Pool for Archive



Storage Pool Fields

  • Name - The name of the storage pool.
  • Comment - An optional comment for the storage pool.
  • Cloud Storage Group - The Cloud Storage Group to which this pool belongs.



Delete Pool

To delete a pool, click the Delete Button.  A pool cannot be deleted until all of the shares in the pool have been removed.