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 - Display if there is another cloud storage added to this pool for multi-cloud redundancy.
    • All shares in the pool will have the same redundancy option.
    • Archive pool doesn't have this option.
    • The pool for BackBlaze doesn't support this option.


ADVANCED - Versioning




ADVANCED - Prefetch


  • Enable Prefetch - Make the prefetch option available for shares in this pool. Prefetch forces CacheDrive to download all new files when created rather than downloading them 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


MultiCloud is used to add a redundant Cloud Storage or to migrate the current Cloud Storage to another Cloud Storage for the files of the shares in the pool.


There are two options:

  • Add Redundancy - If you want to back up the files in the pool to another Cloud Storage besides the current Cloud Storage, you can enable "Add Redundancy" to add another Cloud Storage to this pool. In this case, the files in the pool will be stored in two Cloud Storage. The existing files will be backed up to the newly added pool and the newly added files will be uploaded to both Cloud Storage.
  • Migrate Objects To New CSG - If you want to use a new Cloud Storage to replace the current Cloud Storage, you can enable "Migrate Objects To New CSG". The existing files in the pool will be backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage and the newly added files to this pool will be uploaded to the newly added Cloud Storage only. After all files in the pool have been migrated to the newly added Cloud Storage, you can decide to remove the old Cloud Storage from the pool. 



Add Redundant Cloud Storage to the Pool


Click the "Add Redundancy" button on the MultiCloud page to add a redundant Cloud Storage for files in the pool, files will be stored in both Cloud Storages. The existing files in the pool will be backed up to the newly added Cloud storage, and the newly added files will be uploaded to both Cloud Storage.


There are some options when adding redundant Cloud Storage to the pool:

  • Cloud Storage Group to be added - Select a new Cloud Storage to add to this pool.
  • Only latest version for existing files - You can use this option to decide to back up all versions of the existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage, or just back up the latest versions of the existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage. When this option is enabled, only the latest versions of files will be backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage, when this option is disabled, all versions of the files will be backed up to the newly added Cloud Storage.
  • Gateway - Select a CacheDrive to back up the existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage.
  • Status - The status of the process of backing up the existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage.
  • Schedule - Schedule for the CacheDrive you selected in "Gateway" to back up the existing files to the newly added Cloud Storage. 


Fill out the options according to your needs, and set the schedule of the CacheDrive, then click the "OK" button. CacheDrive will back up existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage by following 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 to a newly added Cloud Storage. The existing files in the pool with versions will be backed up to the newly added Cloud storage, and the newly added files will be uploaded to the newly added Cloud Storage only. 


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 for this pool 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.
  • Status - The status of the process of backing up the existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage.
  • Schedule - Schedule for the CacheDrive you selected in "Gateway" to back up the existing files to the newly added Cloud Storage.


Fill out the options according to your needs, and set the schedule of the CacheDrive, then click the "OK" button. CacheDrive will back up existing files in the pool to the newly added Cloud Storage by following the schedule.


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


Delete CSG


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

For "Add Redundancy", if you want to disable redundancy, you can select one Cloud Storage to remove.

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


Select Primary Storage for Multicloud

  • Select Primary Storage – Set the primary storage for upload and download for each CacheDrives.
    • All CacheDrives that map to at least one share under this pool will be displayed on this page.
    • When uploading a file, the CacheDrive will upload to the primary storage, immediately followed by uploading to the secondary storage.
    • After completing the upload to both storages, the file can be downloaded from the destination CacheDrive's primary storage. If downloading from the destination CacheDrive's primary storage is not successful, the file will then be downloaded from its secondary storage.
  • Defer Upload to Secondary 
    • "Defer upload to secondary" will upload files to the primary storage first but will defer uploading to the secondary storage. 
    • After a file has been uploaded to the primary storage, the file can be downloaded to the destination CacheDrive from the storage which has the files, even though this storage is not the destination CacheDrive's primary storage.
    • After all files in the queue have been uploaded to the primary storage, CacheDrive will start uploading to the secondary storage.
    • Defer Upload to Secondary only works for 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.