Questions tagged [drobo]
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Synology NAS server for home network?
I am considering a Synology DS1511+ for my a development network. I was going down the Drobo Pro FS road until I discovered that their performance is fairly weak. This is sad because a friend of mine founded the company.
Other friends haves…

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DroboS causes Windows Server 2008 box to hang on boot
I'm running a DroboS connected via eSATA and the machine will not boot past the initial Windows graphic loading screen no matter how long I let it run.
Windows Server 2008 x86
connected via an IOgear 4-Port RAID 5 eSATA PCI Card [ GIC704SR5 ]

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Drobo Pros won't mount via iSCSI
I've got an Xserve where I've configured a Drobo Pro. Connected via firewire and USB, it works fine, but when connected to a separate network port, it doesn't mount. I've got the Drobo Pro configured to 2.0.1.2/255.255.0.0 and the network port to…

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Did I do anything bad by attempting to mount a Drobo volume?
While looking around the Drobo control panel for my B800i, I clicked on the little "X" in the Mount column by one of the volumes by accident.
I pulled this image off the Internet and it is not my setup.
Drobo thinks it isn't formatted (it actually…

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iSCSI - what's faster?
I have a DroboPro that is currently connected to a GS748TS switch. Also connected to the switch is a server and few workstations.
Which method would be better in performance?
Add a NIC to the server. Direct connect the DroboPro via iSCSI to the new…

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drobo/rsync create weird root folder
Running rsync from a drobo to fetch remote files, rsync create a wierdly named folder "_2X68O~Y" which contains the fetched files and folders. Under sh the folder has an empty name.
the commandine, run via a .sh…

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What is the meaning of Linux e2fsck "restarting fsck from the beginning"?
My regularly monthly corruption of my drobo ext3 linux means I have fsck -f -y the device but I'm getting the message above a few hours into the process. Anyone know what that means?
I expect that it is a consequence of the regular corruption, for…

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Drobo mirror setup
We have recently acquired 3 Drobo and tried setting them up, each of them contain 4x2TB HDD, but it only shows 5,44TB available, probably because of their beyondRaid technology, this lead to 2 questions :
1) How can I know which disk has the…

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DroboPro ISCSI Connection - Connection has limited or no connectivity in Windows 2003
I have a DroboPro
I've connected the device directly via USB and it works fine.
If i connect the ethernet cable directly from the 2nd Network card on my host machine, to the DroboPro (in order to use ISCSI) then it doesn't seem to connect-
I get a…

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Backup Exec b2d NAS
I'd like to backup my servers to a Drobo NAS which shows up in Windows as a network drive. It doesn't seem possible in Backup Exec 2010 to create a backup to disk folder on a mapped network drive. I feel like I must be missing something here.

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Drobo Pro or SAN for backups
I have multiple offices and was thinking of using two Drobo Pros as a storage location for my backups, with one at each site being synced. It seems like on the surface its a cheap alternative to a SAN. Because it will just be used for storing…

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