Drobo FS and Lion [fixed: but it ain't pretty]
Just after Lion was released I upgraded my iMac. As many others with a Drobo FS, I noticed that time machine would not function. After weeks of trying to get things working again (rebooted my machine and the Drobo countless times) I gave up. I had countless Finder hangs. The support articles and instructions I received are way too ‘complicated’. Not that I’m not able to, but damn, I bought a Mac because I wanted to get rid of this install hell and poorly written instructions.
If you’re in the same boat (having a DroboFS that is), you’re not going to like my solution!
I created new time machine shares deleted the old, and lost 1 year of time travel in the process. After instructing the machines to use these new shares, everything is working again. The Finder hangs are a thing of the past too.
Good luck!
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August 31, 2011 at 1:21 am
I have done the same thing though my Drobo FS still isn’t right. It takes 48 hours to back up 420 GB even though I am connected via ethernet. Any thoughts? Suggestions? Drobo has given up and told me to contact Apple. Right now I have a big black brick in my house, its name is Drobo FS
September 1, 2011 at 9:42 pm
You lucky b#$%^sterd. My 244 GB back up (1 million files) is scheduled to run 20 days!!!! So no thoughts yet. I haven’t contacted support yet, but will open another ticket for sure. Perhaps it’s slow because of many small files, so I will let it run for a while.
The other thing I noticed is that after sometime, the shares have dissapeared.