Questions tagged [drobo]
Drobo is a line of external storage products, including NAS and SAN appliances.
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Dual sets of HDs in a Drobo D5
I have recently bought a Drobo 5D to replace a load of external Lacie hard drives (the hard drives were subsequently removed from their enclosures and put into the Drobo).
The Drobo currently has 5x ...
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Problems streaming media to Samsung TV from NAS, possibly due to DLNA issues
I have been experiencing problems with my IT-entertainment setup at home lately, and haven't managed to sort it out on my own. Basically I have the following setup:
an iMac desktop computer
a Drobo ...
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Is there a command line interface to the Drobo tools in Windows?
Before powering down the Drobo and removing it you're supposed to use the "shutdown" functionality from the Drobo Dashboard. Is there a way to call this from the command line so it can be included in ...
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Windows Backup problems with a NAS
I'm using the Windows 7 backup program in Windows 10 to backup multiple computers to a DROBO NAS.
The NAS always reports it has 16TB of available space, whether or not that is the actual amount ...
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Install OpenSSH on Drobo 5N
The DroboPorts site says that it is possible to install apps onto the Drobo 5N, but I understand the Drobo 5N only supports Copy and Plex right now and cannot install other apps.
Could someone please ...
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Automatically mount and repeatedly check for Drobo mount
Is there a way I can repeatedly check for a Drobo mount and if it's not there perform a mount? I have a Drobo which I use from a few Macs and throughout the day at different points mounts seem to kick ...
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Replacing lower capacity disk for Drobo on Linux
Connecting Drobo Gen2 (4-slots) to a Red Hat Linux 6.2 box. Using drobo-util-0.6.2.2.
Old disks are 1x 3TB, 2x 1TB, 1x 750GB. New disks inserted are 3x 3TB disks and 1x 1TB disk.
When I run 'drobom ...
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File sync and version control on LAN with a Drobo?
I work in a office with another video producer and we have a networked Drobo. Currently we are using Backuplist+ to sync files to a common folder between our Mac Pro's. Works fine, but it's hard to ...
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Drobo FS recognizing only 1 of my 5 3TB hard drives
so I have a Drobo FS [5 bay] and just updated everything to make sure I have the most recent firmware/dashboard software and am running into an issue.
I bought 5 3tb hitachi drives from http://www....
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Can I directly access data on a harddrive removed from failed Drobo device?
I have a Drobo network storage device that's 5+ years old. The device might be fully functional but lately I have not been able to connect to it from my Win10 machine: Drobo Dashboard is not seeing ...
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Share files over Internet (SMB? VPN?)
I manage backups for my parents and I in two separate locations. Parents have a Drobo5N. I want to be able to access the files on that easily and visually so that I can backup their files at my ...
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Drobo 5N giving me network errors
I have a Drobo 5N that's giving me network errors when I try to save files to it. The start of the errors correlates with me replacing one drive and adding one drive. The problem is that all drives ...
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Drobo issue with hard drive
I hope someone here can help as I have found nothing while searching google or Drobo's website for an answer. Also, I'm fairly new to using Drobo, so go easy on me.
Okay, so I have a friend who gave ...
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Manually Install SSMTP On Drobo 5N NAS Without APT-GET Package
The goal is to achieve an outbound email notification when a cron job is run on my Drobo 5N NAS device. But, there does not appear to be any package installed such as mail, sendmail or ssmtp that ...
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Daisy-Chaining 2 Drobo DAS's — Becomes 1 device or 2?
I have a Drobo 5Nt (5-disk direct-attached storage) which has two Thunderbolt 2 ports on the back.
I understand the two ports allow me to daisy-chain multiple Drobo devices together — so if I ...
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Drobo FS on Fedora tar backups fail w Input/output error, Child returned status 1
We're been running tar/gzip backups for a while on Fedora 25 Linux servers and we'd like to make sure aquota.user files get backed up. From the comments in the drobo-backup.conf file here's what we ...
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Ensure network shares are constantly mounted
I have a Drobo connected to my network that serves up media to two Macs. Essentially this server acts as a Timemachine and file server for large media files. The frustrating part is that I need to ...
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Drobo Firewire 800 to iMac not working
I have a Drobo (regular... no 'S') and I just bought a new iMac 27" with a Firewire 800 port.
I can connect my Drobo to the iMac via USB 2.0 just fine works as intended. However, when I attempt to ...
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Drobo doesn't power up after Windows7 hibernation
I am using a Drobo on a 64bit Windows7 Professional system. Often, when waking from hibernate mode, the Drobo doesn't power up. I have the latest (1.3.7) firmware in the Drobo.
Anyone know of a fix?
