Arq

Drobo - End of Sale Drobo FS
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Anyone using Arq to backup their FS?

I love it but it doesn’t seem to work when the disks spin down? Anyone have any suggestions?

George

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Hi George,
(I’m the author of Arq). I’d love to fix the problem for you. Could you tell me more about the problem please? Either here or email me at support@haystacksoftware.com.
Thanks!

  • Stefan
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Wow, it’s great to see the author of an application actively monitoring its usage. Kudos to you Stefan!

If I ever get a Mac OS machine, I’ll definitely look into Arq. For now, the best I can do is point my Mac friends to your product.

As for the OP’s problem, with the Drobo FS (and DroboShare) there is a ~10-15 second delay on accessing a share after the unit has not been accessed for a while and the drives have spun down. This can cause some applications to time out on when accessing the share after a long period of inactivity (~15 minutes or so). I’m not sure if that’s what happening for the OP, but it is likely.

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OK, but Arq doesn’t use any timeout when reading from disk, so it should wait patiently until the disk read call returns.
Hopefully the OP responds with more details.
Thanks

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OK, if you have any more questions/issues in the future the quickest thing is probably to email me at support@haystacksoftware.com.
Thanks!

  • Stefan