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21. Cybie257
    Member

    @klim - I like your setup. I assume, though, that your data drive(s) are limited to 8? I see the point in how/why you set that up that way. It made me realize a potential disaster in my list setup that I will need to test before letting my GUI out for others to use. It has to do with the order of data# in the config. I think re-arranging the volumes (not deleting) would result in an ugly update issue, requiring a full rebuild. Hmmmm, back to the test mode to confirm. Thank you for sharing that!!! :)

    Cybie257

    Posted 5 years ago #

22. CountDracula
    Member

    One thing I would like to see in a GUI is a progress indicator for create, update, verify, etc. I just kicked off my first parity create, and unless I'm mistaken, there is no indication as to how long it will take. I use an ad-hoc method, which is to see how much drive space is free on the parity drive.

    I'd like to see:
    1) Estimated time till completion
    2) Time elapsed
    3) Current rate in MB/s
    4) Percentage complete

    Posted 5 years ago #

23. Cybie257
    Member

    Well, I just wanted to give an update. Things have become hectic, so updating the changes necessary are going slow. But, not to worry, I don't plan to give up, so keep an eye out for the link to the file.

    Cybie

    Posted 5 years ago #

24. Cybie257
    Member

    Well, after a lot of things happening and disrupting my progress, I finally got to a point where I feel comfortable enough to release a beta version of my disParity Control Center application for disParity.exe.

    Here is the link to the file: http://www.mediafire.com/file/oges8bzpk8gb27g/DCC.zip

    Please let me know via the forum here if you encounter any issues downloading the file and with any comments/questions so that others can find the answers in one place.

    Thanks, Cybie

    Posted 4 years ago #

25. Klaatou
    Member

    Hello !
    I would be glad to try your GUI but I don't like to move Disparity in C:\disparity.
    Can't we have a choice of the install directory ?

    I copy in "your" dir and give it a try ;)

    thank you

    EDIT : I finaly read the readme so forget what I said for the directory ;)

    Posted 4 years ago #

26. Cybie257
    Member

    I see that 9 downloads have occurred since I posted the file link.

    I will be seeking some feedback (positive or negative) and for other ideas/changes that could be suggested. :)

    Thanks,
    Cybie

    Posted 4 years ago #

27. Cybie257
    Member

    No feedback??? Up to 20 downloads and I'm just curious of what others think? Is it worth continuing to work on? Any suggestions to improve aside from the ideas I already posted/planned to improve?

    Hoping for some feedback,
    Cybie

    Posted 4 years ago #

28. chiggyman
    Member

    Some feedback here :
    Overall a very nice well polished program, personally I liked a bit more feedback while it was working so I chose to show the worked, nice that you gave that option.. Perhaps look into providing the command line feedback of each file being worked on in your GUI?

    I didn't like the kind of "forced wizard" on first bootup, because I could only add 3 drives, so I had to create one parity, to then add more drives and create it again? Seemed rather strange.

    I think it's definitely worth continuing with, I'm not sure if you know but Microsoft have just announced that they're not going to be including drive extender with the next version of windows home server, so I think you'll find a LOT more of the "tech savvy" people running a server OS and looking into data protection options like disParity, and your GUI makes this a lot more accessible. Keep up the good work!

    Posted 4 years ago #

29. Cool1Net6
    Member

    It seems as though my thread has become a nexus of disParity GUI talk. I like the ideas that are flowing through here and the feedback everyone is generating. Also, I have a new version!

    DisParity Storage Manager v0.4 Alpha Preview | http://student.fau.edu/pbryan/web/dsm/

    This new version has been an excercise in 'simplicity'. I ran into issues developing off of the code I had originally created, so I started from scratch and focused on getting the core of the program to work as best as possible. The GUI has been simplified, the code behind it is easier to work with, and overall everything is now more streamlined.

    I'm still working to get all of the features I want into the application, but I wanted to get some feedback on my progress as well as any problems, comments, and concerns on my development direction.

    -Cool-

    Posted 4 years ago #

30. axeman48
    Member

    A bit of feedback, short of log parsing DisParity Storage Manager v0.4 does everything I need it to, clean, simple, easy to use. Great work Cool1Net6!

    Posted 4 years ago #

31. Klaatou
    Member

    I use the GUI since it's available and I like to be able to add disks ;) I have now 10 1TB disks and all seam to work fine !
    I only wait to be able to put the software where I want ;-)
    and maybe some little yellow tooltips on command choices (I never found the differences between "Test", "Verify" and "Hash Check" ....) but it has no link with the GUI work ;)

    merci

    Posted 4 years ago #

32. Roland
    Roland

    test - simulates a complete recovery of a drive; i.e. does everything involved in a recovery except actually writing out the final (recovered) files to disk

    verify - validates the entire parity snapshot against all drives; basically it recomputes all of the parity again and verifies that it matches the actual parity on disk (This is really only to check for bugs in disParity.)

    hashcheck - checks the stored md5 hash for every file on disk against the actual files; no parity involved in this, it's simply a way to check for possible file corruption

    Posted 4 years ago #

33. Klaatou
    Member

    merci !

    Posted 4 years ago #

34. protovision
    Member

    hey all,

    I'm having an issue with DSM, it seems to ignore the options I set:

    - change temp ram (1200)
    - change temp folder (e:\temp, 1.5 GB ramdisk)
    - show worker

    when I set these, and then display options again, it has reset my selection. Also, my hidden files are ignored even though the checkbox is clear, and I don't see the effects of 'show worker', if its suppose to show something.

    anyone else?

    Also, how is the TEMP RAM and TEMP Folder used? I have them assigned as 1200MB and pointing to a 1.5GB ramdisk. The files I'm protecting are usually 8-20GB each. Is setting the ram high and pointing to a ramdisk helpful?

    system:
    win7 x64, asus p5b-vm, 4x2TB data, 1x2TB parity (esata)

    thanks!

    Posted 4 years ago #

35. Roland
    Roland

    I don't use DSM...but as for the temp RAM setting, that is only used when the files being processed are smaller than the RAM setting. If they are larger, disk must be used instead for the temp storage.

    If you are pointing your temp folder to a disk with only 1.5GB free, and then processing files that are 8-20GB each, that will NOT work!!! You should be seeing errors in your disParity output if this is the case.

    The purpose of the temp stuff is to avoid parity corruption due to errors with processing any one file. Per file, all modified parity is stored in a temp location until the entire file has been processed, then it is flushed to the real parity at the end. Smaller files can use RAM for this temp storage, but the temp storage for larger files must be placed on disk.

    Posted 4 years ago #

36. protovision
    Member

    thanks for the info Roland!

    I thought the temp size and folder were used to create/hold the 1GB parity 'chunk', so 1.2GB would be big enough, oh well.

    Posted 4 years ago #

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