September 7, 2010 2:36 PM

Have you found a solution to this? I have pretty much the same question. Using Retrospect 6 on a OS X 10.5 server. I was backing up to an external drive connected via FireWire. I detached it and connected to the Pogoplug Biz via USB. I can see all my back up catalogs but I cannot get Retrospect to link back to those sets.

September 10, 2010 12:41 PM

I got in touch with Pogoplug support and here is their response:

I reviewed Retrospect's KB article regarding NAS devices http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=2.138919... and Retrospect requires AFP or SMB network broadcast protocols to select with Retrospect software.

Pogoplug does not work in this manner. Instead, when you login at my.pogoplug.com or using the Pogoplug Drive Application, you are actually logging into Pogoplug Service which then lists your folders and files as if directly attached to your Pogoplug. We chose email and password authentication to seamlessly enable remote and local access to your Pogoplug attached drives without additional network configuration.

It looks like you may have to try the installing plugapps, as found in other posts on this site, to include Samba support.