Hey folks, Looked through the forum and couldn't find an answer on this problem I face. I've got a client PC that has a simple "Storage Space/Pool" consisting of 3 HDD with no redundancy setup. For backup purposes I'm using Syncovery with realtime backup to a remote server over VPN. This PC is running Win10 RS1 14393.105 currently. What I would like to know is if it will be possible for me to move this "Storage Space" over to a Windows 8.1. Has anyone attempted this? I have my doubts that 8.1 is using the same implementation of Storage Space pools but I couldn't find any concrete evidence of this. Wasn't sure which forum to put this subject in
Obviously i stay away from SS (I use the great and surpriseless Drivepool, for the purpose). All I can say is that the deduplication implementation of W10/Wserver2016 is not backward compatible with w8/w8.1 ones. I wouldn't be surprised if the same will apply to SS as well. Anyway I did migrate back my deduplicated disks (that wserver 2016 migrated silently to the new protocol) using Hyperv, a virtualized Wserver2016, and the disks partly connected to the real machine and partly connected to the WM, then I just moved the files trough a standard SMB share.