My backups are to a Drobo Gen 2 with 4x2TB Hard drives in it. Has been running like this for a very long time.
This morning i got a message from Time Capsule that it couldn’t backup. I did a ton of searches that came to the conclusion of ‘nuke from orbit’ was best option.
I ‘reset’ the drobo, and went to recreate the volume.
Drobo Dashboard tells me it can’t format, and I should restart the dashboard.
I’ve done that + a whole lot more but it still won’t format. It see’s all 4 drives, shows them as green.
I’ve removed the drives, and reinserted them, they all come up green.
FYI: I called Drobo. I have a Mac Pro 2006 edition (heh, they have GOT to come out with a new one soon)
Apparently with the latest dashboard/firmware and FIrewire 800 pre-2011 Mac’s need a patch. once that was on, it formatted fine and new backup is going. Since I updated to try and fix things, I made it worse With the patch they provided (for my 3 year old Drobo) things worked fine after patch applied.
New time machine backup on newly formatted array going.
check how youve set your timemachine. i think theres a certain way it needs to be setup (so that the timemachine volume has a fixed limit (which is less than the total space of the drobo)
you might already know about how it should be setup, but in case not, have a look on the forum for more info here[hr]
With the patch they provided (for my 3 year old Drobo) things worked fine after patch applied.