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August 29, 2009 12:50 PM

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I use Chronosync to syncronize folders among different external drives, some on pogoplug, some not, which seems to be working quite well.

It costs some coin ($50 including a background scheduler) and has lifetime update policy.

Since I keep all my family photos in one folder on a drive off the pogoplug (a drobo) it's very comforting to know these irreplaceable photos are synced to another drive nightly.

The Drobo firmware protects me from a drive failure, but it's buggy sometimes and I worry a little about the whole drobo failing completely. So now, I just sync my photos and home movie folders to an external drive.

I can also sync folders from my Macs to the pogoplug as a backup using this program.

Anyway, the $50 has been worth it for me.

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August 30, 2009 10:40 AM

Thanks for the info. I have been looking for a good sync tool for my Mac and the pogoplug. I've tried a few different ones with varying degrees of success and was just thinking of trying Chronosync. Question: Do you use iPhoto? What format are the drives behind the pogo? The reason I ask is that one problem I have with all the back up options is that I can't back up symlinks to the pogo (not supported), I was curious if you run into that problem too. iPhoto has a single symlink within the package. It is easy to recreate, so worst case, in a disaster, I could recreate it manually.

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August 30, 2009 9:30 PM updated: August 30, 2009 9:32 PM

Hi John.

I'm afraid I don't have answer for you on that because I haven't set up my photos folder on the Pogo to work with iPhoto yet.

I'm not the biggest fan of iPhoto. I've tried to use it several times, and find the way it makes everything into one big db troubling.

Usually I just add the photos to the library, but don't copy them, leaving them on the network drive.

It seems to me Apple just assumes we'll all have our photos on the local drive and don't make iPhoto, or iTunes for that matter, to adopt real well to keeping one big photo or music library on a network drive.

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August 30, 2009 10:51 PM updated: August 30, 2009 10:55 PM

I second the use of Chronosync. It is a great tool. And on the subject of iPhoto and their big DB. First iPhoto doesn't alter any photo, so even if the DB is 'corrupted' you will always be able to recover your photos, b/c it is just a fancy folder without double-click access. That being said, for the purposes of backing up an iPhoto DB, I found it a bit tedious with it being structured as it is, especially if your backup tool does not dissect packages. But cool thing about Chronosync is it can open packages and copy only what is necessary.

But an even better solution I found was to put my DB inside a mounted expanding sparsebundle, and then unmounted, I use Chronosync to only update the 8mb segments of the sparsebundle that have changed as well as the index file. Works perfect, and if you want you can encrypt it as well. And the format of the mounted sparsebundle will be HFS+ so there is no problem with symlinks etc.

But Pogoplug cannot mount a sparsebundle (not yet), so if it is for backup purposes only, it can hold the segments of the sparsebundle parent folder. In essence you have a backup in the form of a folder with lots of 8mb pieces. When you copy the parent folder with the 8Mb pieces back onto an HFS+ mac volume, Leopard or above will be able to mount it, everything intact.

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March 30, 2010 11:33 PM

Hey Gang - wondering if you could help me out with a potential setup. I just got two drobopro's because I want to keep one at work and one at home, and have them sync wirelessless over the net in the background - and securely hopefully. I was thinking of using Chronosync, but don't know if it'd be stable with large volumes (several terabytes of data to keep in sync). As well, wondering if the pogoplug is the solution to make it easy to share things over the net for syncing - I'm having a little trouble figuring that all out on Mac OSX.

Finally, any thoughts on streaming HD video with the pogoplug?

would love your drobo input. Cheers

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March 6, 2011 4:15 PM

Hi Docnic,

I have the same setup as you with 2 DroboPro 8 bay units, which I keep 1 in the office and the other at home.

I'm hoping you can tell me how you managed to get them both to sync as I have tried Chronosync and found it to crash due to the large amount data?
I cant understand why Drobo would only release Drobo Sync to work with the DroboPro FS but not the DroboPro, when the DroboPro is almost the same except with firewire 400, 800 and USB facilities.

Could anyone please email me and let me know how to get my 2 DroboPro units to sync over iscsi connected via a router?

Many thanks,
Yohanna

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