4-Drive Setup Questions

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Hey man, thanks for the feedback! Thanks to your help I got everything setup last night - I couldn’t believe it, things were working! …until CloudDrive somehow maxed out my entire local drive when transferring files to the cloud. Still not sure what to do. Here are a bit more details. I’m thinking of maybe going with BackBlaze for the back-up part.

Last night I tried copying and pasting about 671GB of files to the H drive (the hybrid pool) from the D drive (external drive in a Probox enclosure that is pooled in the Local Pool (L), which is part of the Hybrid Pool (H)). For the cloud drive, I set 3gb of expandable local cache and had about 100GB free on my local hard drive ©. The transfer seemed to be going ok, but slow - originally scheduled to finish in 4 hours (so about 50mb/s). When I woke up this morning, the local hard drive was maxed out and only had 5GB of free space. In Cloud Drive, I went to Manage Drive > Clear Local Cache and changed it to Proportional (still 3GB). That was about 5 hours ago. There is now 34GB of free space on C, and about 60GB used in the local cache. This tends to match up with the 110GB of files that were transferred to the Hybrid Pool (H), not sure if by coincidence. The Hybrid Pool transfer has been stalled at 0 bytes/sec for hours now. I thought clearing the cache would get things moving, but no files are being transferred despite the transfer box still. What do you recommend I do? Should I delete the CloudPart (local cache?) that is 60GB on my C drive?

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This is one of the issues I had with Cloud Drive.
I really hated that you cant browse your cloud providers own software and see what is actually there. I just like transparency and as mentioned I only really did it in a test environment.

I’m not too familiar with BackBlaze but am i right in thinking it will backup a PC regardless of that PC having 200GB or 200TB of data?
If so it may be a better solution if you purely want a backup service for your data.

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Thanks again for your guidance, you are truly a gentleman!

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You are correct about BackBlaze, although there are some restrictions on the file types it will backup and the cost. I, personally, use Crashplan and have almost 12TB backed up with it currently m

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Thanks for the feedback! Currently uploading to Backblaze, which is pretty slow and will prob take a couple months! Pricing and simplicity are good though. The restrictions were pretty much limited to system files and programs, which I’m not worried about and appears you can remove them from the list of exclusions.