Microsoft OneDrive mapped as network drive for Burst mining


  • admin

    @Propagandalf The additional files around the plot folder are the plotter files. They can be deleted after plotting has finished...



  • I never had any problems with google drive. I do remember trying One Drive last year when they still had 15GB free. For some reason it didn't work or was very slow I can't remember. I will try to upload a plot to microsoft one drive to test it out. The program you use to map the drive may have something to do with it also. It seems like google gives you the best access to their cloud drives.



  • @crutsy Thank you! If you try, and get the same error as me, then maybe the problem lies in some restriction on the server side. I still haven't come any closer to a solution.



  • @Propagandalf Sorry it took me so long I have been very busy. I have uploaded a 5GB plot to the free microsoft one drive account and I can say that it works just as good as the google drive. Doesn't seem to be any slower. No errors so far. I'll let you know if anything changes.



  • @crutsy
    Thanks for the reply. I'm glad it worked for you!

    Could you please give me a summary of each step you performed in order to get it working? I'm curious about for instance the miner and plotter type, how you mounted the drive, and where you plotted to and if you plotted directly or uploaded the file afterwards. If you uploaded, how did you do it?



  • @Propagandalf I'm on windows 7 64bit 6 core AVX cpu with 8GB memory.

    I try to keep everything very simple in the setup.

    I manually plot the file to the exact size of the cloud space. In this case Google's free 15GB's.
    I use the standard windows plotter wplotgenerator.exe, for me it is the most controllable way to plot, and 15Gb takes very little time.
    I then optimize the plot with plot optimizer GUI 1.0.3. It works great and is very easy to use. It is java tho.

    Once the 15GB plot is perfect size and optimized I will log into the cloud via the webpage. I find that this is an important step! Upload the plot... The web page seems to always be a faster upload and rarely fails. The upload is the part that takes the longest by far. Usually 6-8 Hours on my 25Mb internet. So again make sure your plot is perfect and not a mb over the cloud limit. Wait for the upload.

    When the plot is finished uploading log out of the web page.
    Open NetDrive, A program used to map cloud drives as network drives. I've tried a few others and obviously not all of them, but this one seems to work the best. The demo version only last 30 days at that point you can only connect one drive and it seems to cut the bandwidth in half. So try to get your hands on a full copy right out of the gate.
    Net drive is very easy to use just log in to the cloud service and connect. It will give a drive number which you can also see in My Computer. I left all the default settings in netdrive.

    From there I add the new drive letter to my miner config. I personally use Blago's miner, for many reasons, It is best on windows 7 and it compliments my setup well with the proxy feature.

    Your internet will become the bottle neck.

    So far I've only used Google and OneDrive. I can say most of the others don't have more than 5GB free. Hubic looked good at 50GB free but it fails to upload at 2-3GB and is horribly unusable slow.

    If you have any questions let me know



  • @crutsy Thank you for this detailed answer! I really appreciate it, and will give the plotting/mining on OneDrive another go as soon as I find time for it.



  • @crutsy @haitch @dawallet

    OK so looks like I found time right away, lol. I set up the networked drive using NetDrive and tried mining the same plot files that I originally had problems reading from work (but now I am at home using a different PC). This time I had no read errors at all.

    This is what I think has caused the problems:
    For some reason, I managed to map a folder called 'plots' and not the root directory within OneDrive as a network drive on my work PC, because I was first messing about with manually creating folders and uploading plots through the browser interface before mapping it as a network drive. So, when I later accessed the drive through my computer it would look like I was in the root directory, except I wasn't. So, I assume the CPU miner 'found' the file in G: - Burst - plots and tried to read it, but failed to open it, because the real path (visible if I logged in to OneDrive through the browser) was G: - Burst - plots - Burst - plots (yes, I know that looks retarded, and it is).

    Solution:
    I need to remove the mapped network drive at work, and map it again, this time mapping it to the root directory.



  • @blago
    Since reading through plot files on a network drive takes longer (because of internet speed bottleneck), I would like my miner to read those plots after reading plots on my internal and external drives, so that I can submit as many deadlines as possible before the next round starts. How can I configure my CPU miner to prioritize reading specific drives? What is the logic?

    This is from my miner.conf: "G:\Burst\plots","F:\Burst\plots","E:\Burst\plots","C:\Burst\plots", but it reads in this order: C, G, F, E. My network drive is G.


  • Mod

    @Propagandalf no, miner reads ALL paths parallelly. In you case, C < G < F < E, that's why miner final to read paths in that order.

    if you want read paths in series, you may use "+", like
    "G:\Burst\plots+F:\Burst\plots+E:\Burst\plots+C:\Burst\plots"
    logically, this will 1 Path (I'm not recommend)



  • @Blago
    I was not aware that it reads all drives in parallell. Does that mean that every time I see a white line in the miner (i.e. Thread "C:\Burst\plots" @0.06) it is simply because that particular drive has been finished earlier than the rest?

    If I understand correctly, configuring the miner to read 1 path will be slower then, because it will first read through one drive before moving on to the next (series, not in parallell)?


  • Mod

    @Propagandalf "Yes, that's right" to both questions


  • admin

    @Propagandalf You could do: "c:\Burst\plots","e:\burst\plots","f:\burst\plots + g:\burst\plots"

    That should read your local drives in parallel and then do the network drive after the F: plots are processed.



  • @haitch
    Hmm... would that give me any benefits? Would not reading the network drive in parallell be better?



  • My opinion is that it would depend on your internet connection. It is my thinking that I want it to start downloading immediately. The faster the better always. Now if it were obvious that the mining of the plot is hurting your connection to the pool I would put them at the end. My setup runs all at once.

    just my 2 bursts


  • admin

    @Propagandalf In parallel would be better, but you asked how to do the network drive after the local drives - and that's the question I answered ......



  • @crutsy @haitch I see, thank you for both the answers! :)



  • For fuck's sake. I have finally mapped the OneDrive for Business root directory to my work PC, but I still get the read error in my miner. From my home PC I have no trouble reading the same plots, but I want to be able to read them from my work PC.

    The difference between the two setups is that my home PC has OneDrive mapped using the Net Drive program, while my work PC has it mapped manually. I believe there are semi-issues with authentication or something, and I have no admin rights to install programs here, so for the moment using Net Drive is not an option. It is strange though, because I can now view all the files like I normally can with other network drives in explorer.

    Does anyone know of any Net Drive-like programs that are portable, so that I can run them from my thumb drive?



  • To my knowledge you have to use a program like netdrive. I've tried others and most of them don't work or are very slow. Netdrive does something to speed it up or keep them connected.

    Good luck bro



  • @crutsy Thanks, mate. I just tried the portable program "Drive Mapper" (http://commons.pacificu.edu/apps/4/), but sadly it did not make a difference. Like you said I probably need a more powerful program like Net Drive, but finding portable ones is not that easy. How I wish my employers would ease up on the management of their PCs a bit, so a poor miner can do his job! Well, at least I have scraped together 410 GB on local drives, so my miner won't be idling.


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