![]() ![]() My main volume's directory structure had become corrupt! Now this is not the first time that this has happened to me on my computers. What had happened was something I hadn't thought about. Not only was the drive not mounting on the desktop, but now there was only one light on. Normally for me there are 3 of those lights on. What was even worse was that there are 10 blue LED lights on the front of the Drobo unit to show you visually how much capacity has been used up. After another reboot, the Drobo no longer appeared on the desktop. The next thing that happened was kind of heart stopping. Why? Because technically there wasn't a problem with the hardware. ![]() So I did the normal troubleshooting stuff including rebooting and that's where my evening of fun began. When I checked folder in the OS it was EMPTY! I thought that was odd, and went over to the actual Mac OS X Server machine and all the data was there. The only problem was that I was getting write errors that looked like something had gone haywire with the permissions of the folder I was trying to write to. I snapped some shots of my setup with my digital camera and began the import process on one of my computers over my network to my server. I had originally sat down to continue to write about more stuff on streaming TV content and my transition for an Apple TV to a Mac mini in one of my rooms. This was not the blog post I intended on writing As a matter of fact it goes out of its way to monitor the health and well being of the drives and report any potential problems. You might think that with a Drobo, there's no need right? After all, isn't the point of a RAID system like this to protect your data against drive failures? The answer is yes! Drobo is engineered to protect your data in the event of a drive going bad. Drs.I've lost enough important data in my life to be very backup conscious! So when I got my Drobo (what's a Drobo and how does it work? read my earlier review.) last year, I was still very concerned about regular backups. We could never rely on Time Machine and Migration to copy all the details (especially related to our applications) but with Carbon Copy Cloner, what you see is what you get. ![]() Your online support is, by far, the best we’ve ever encountered - as good as having our own tech support advisor available whenever we need him/her! Amazing! And we rest assured, knowing that if we were to encounter a virus or an internet pirate, we have all the backups we need at our fingertips! Backups we can count on - identical to the original in every way - down to the programs and systems and preferences - perfect copies of the original like no other application has ever been able to provide. ![]() We cannot thank you enough for the best application we have ever discovered, the clearest, most up-to-date and detailed FAQ and guides, and the most responsive, knowledgeable, and concerned Technical Support Team. We use it every night to back up our work and sleep peacefully knowing our hours of hard work are truly safe and secure. We want you to know that we could not, could NOT, in any way, do our work with the confidence, security, efficiency, and ease if we did not have your Carbon Copy Cloner as our most vital application. ![]()
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