I'm spending my weekend upgrading from WHS v1 to WHS 2011 and everything's going as planned so far. Of course I backed up all my WHS v1 files to an external HD beforehand (about 1TB).
Just after installing WHS 2011 I installed the StableBit Drivepool add-in (just the 30-day trial at the moment).
I have 2 X 2TB drives in my WHS box. I was planning on plugging the external HD directly into the WHS in order to restore all my files rather than plug it into a networked PC and restore through the network which would take much longer. The issue I'm having is that there are several drive letters available:
D: which is 2TB and already has a "Server Folders" directory, with folders within called Music, Pictures, Video, etc.
F: which is my second 2TB drive which appears empty and shows 2TB free
H: which is the DrivePool drive which is also empty and shows 3.55TB free
So where do I copy the data from my external HD to? My external HD also has the default folders of Music, Videos, Pictures, etc. Do I copy the contents directly into the matching folders in the D: drive? Or should I copy folders and all to the new DrivePool drive? If I do that, what happens to the similar-named folders already in the D: drive? Should I delete everything from the D: drive first and restore all my data to the H: DrivePool drive? If so, should all the folders be within a folder called "Server Folders", or does it matter?
Hopefully someone here can help since I'm not sure where to restore my old data. Thanks in advance for any responses.
Just after installing WHS 2011 I installed the StableBit Drivepool add-in (just the 30-day trial at the moment).
I have 2 X 2TB drives in my WHS box. I was planning on plugging the external HD directly into the WHS in order to restore all my files rather than plug it into a networked PC and restore through the network which would take much longer. The issue I'm having is that there are several drive letters available:
D: which is 2TB and already has a "Server Folders" directory, with folders within called Music, Pictures, Video, etc.
F: which is my second 2TB drive which appears empty and shows 2TB free
H: which is the DrivePool drive which is also empty and shows 3.55TB free
So where do I copy the data from my external HD to? My external HD also has the default folders of Music, Videos, Pictures, etc. Do I copy the contents directly into the matching folders in the D: drive? Or should I copy folders and all to the new DrivePool drive? If I do that, what happens to the similar-named folders already in the D: drive? Should I delete everything from the D: drive first and restore all my data to the H: DrivePool drive? If so, should all the folders be within a folder called "Server Folders", or does it matter?
Hopefully someone here can help since I'm not sure where to restore my old data. Thanks in advance for any responses.