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Reply to Filesystem corruption with droboshare & NTFS? on August 12, 2008

I've given up on the droboshare. I went out and bought some parts to build a mini-itx server, and the drobo will soon be connected to a real linux box, with ext3 as the filesystem...

Reply to Filesystem corruption with droboshare & NTFS? on June 27, 2008

Woohoo. However, for now, I think I'm going to drop-kick the droboshare and connect the drobo to a linux box (I have hardware on order, to be delivered next week). I want to play with...

Reply to DroboSHARE Hacks on June 25, 2008

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Reply to DroboSHARE Hacks on June 25, 2008

Considering that it runs linux, DR needs to open it up a little. Something like the add-on modules that exist for the Thecus N5300: http://www.onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/N5200_Module_List" class="linkification-ext">http://www.onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/N5200_Module_List In particular, an ext3 drobo/droboshare with rsync and ssh...

Reply to Filesystem corruption with droboshare & NTFS? on June 21, 2008

Maserman said: My "challenge" to you: 1) Connect Droboshare *dircetly* to your PCs ehernet port 2) Ensure your PC is set for DHCP 3) Allow Dashboard to discovery ("see") the Drobo(share) 4) repeat your experiments...

Reply to Force drobo filesystem check? on June 13, 2008

Thanks, I should have been able to figure that out for myself. Running chkdsk did the trick, as it found some errors. The free space is now back to where it should be. However, I...

Reply to 3 Drobo setup help needed... on June 7, 2008

Mark F (Data Robotics) said: rsync is know for its ability to handle incremental changes instead of copying the entire file. It has dozens of command line options, which is why I speculate that it...