The backup of the Linux archive took about 3.5 hours at about 25MiB/s over wired ethernet. On my Linux box, I mounted the Drobo via SMB/CIFS and copied over my 460GB archive. I decided to test it hard out of the box and ran that TimeMachine backup from the mac (connected wirelessly) coincident with a big copy from my Linux video editing box. The TimeMachine hook up worked like a charm and started backing up. I setup my MacBook to use 500GB of storage as a TimeMachine backup.
I then went into Advanced Settings -> Tools and configured email alerts to send me an email if Drobo becomes too full or has problems.īack in Dashboard, I created a couple of shares, one as backup for my main Linux video editing workstation and the other for my MacBook and TimeMachine. Dashboard then asked me if I wanted to upgrade the Dashboard software, which I did.
#Drobo dashboard not finding drobo fs update#
But second time around, the firmware update worked. There was a small hiccup with Dashboard not seeing the Drobo after doing the firmware, so I had to hard power it down. Drobo Dashboard saw the unit as it sat attached to my router.ĭashboard asked me if I wanted to upgrade the firmware.so I did. I installed the Drobo Dashboard, the utility program for the Drobo, on my MacBook Pro, rebooted the Mac, popped a combination of five 250GB and 500GB drives in, hooked up the power and the ethernet cables and fired it up. I bought the Drobo FS from Amazon (about $694 with free shipping) and set it up between yesterday and today. It is such a pleasure to not have to worry about RAID arcana just to have your systems safely backed up.
I've had my Drobo FS for three days, but man, I love the thing. If all computer technology was like the Drobo, there would be less people complaining that their tech is difficult to use or doesn't work.
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