[Leica] [OM] Drobos

[Tina Manley]

I made sure to have everything backed up twice - once on one of the Drobos
and once in the cloud (BackBlaze).   So far, restoring everything has been
fairly easy, it's just taking a long time.  My LR catalogs are only 64%
finished.

The Dell guy (who was in India) seemed to think my problems were all from
upgrading to Windows 11 so I won't be doing that again.  The computer
crashed every time I tried to use Vuescan and sometimes just with File
Explorer.  I spent most of my time restarting the computer and not getting
anything scanned.  The Dell guy has called back twice to be sure everything
is running smoothly and will call back again in 2 days.  I was pleased with
the service.

Thanks!!

Tina


On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:24 PM Mike Bloor <admin at seratel.ie> wrote:

> Tina,
>
> If you restore your laptop to the factory settings do you risk losing
> the Drobo backup software? That could be a disaster.
>
> I've never had to resort to a factory restore and I'd be very wary of
> doing so. Unfortunately, it's an easy option for the tech suggesting it.
>
> If you do go with Synology, it can create an image backup of your
> laptop and install software on a USB key to allow you to do a bare
> metal restore.
>
> Mike
>
>
> At 18:17 30/06/2022, you wrote:
> >Thanks, Mike.  Synology is the one I was looking at.  It's great to have
> >your advice!!
> >
> >I have been having computer problems and had to have Dell talk me through
> >restoring my computer to factory settings and I'm reinstalling everything
> >so it will be a few days before I decide what to do about the Drobos.
> >
> >I will certainly contact you if I need help!
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Tina
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:13 PM Mike Bloor <admin at seratel.ie> wrote:
> >
> > > Tina,
> > >
> > > I use Synology and find them good. If you have 25TB on each Drobo,
> > > how about buying a Synology Disk Station with say 32TB installed but
> > > lots of empty slots? Transfer the data from one Drobo, then take the
> > > disks from that , reinitialise them in the new NAS and copy another
> > > Drobo, and so on. Synology have a "hybrid NAS" system that allows you
> > > to mix disks of different sizes and still get the most possible
> storage.
> > >
> > > Synology also offer a cloud solution so you can duplicate the files
> > > from your local NAS in the cloud.
> > >
> > > I'm happy to help off-list if you want.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > At 17:08 30/06/2022, you wrote:
> > > >Does anybody here use Drobos to store their photos??  I have 4 5C
> Drobos
> > > >with 100 TB of photo files.  Drobo went bankrupt last week.  Their
> > > software
> > > >for restoring files is proprietary and I'm having nightmares about
> sudden
> > > >failures.
> > > >
> > > >I've been using Drobos for many years and have never had a drive fail
> but
> > > >there is always a first time!
> > > >
> > > >If you have Drobos are you switching to something else?  What would
> that
> > > be?
> > > >
> > > >TIA
> > > >
> > > >Tina
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