Hi.
Is there a way to sync/rsync/backup/upload specific folders from my DroboFS to a cloud ? preferably to Google’s Gdrive or Dropbox’s.
Dror
Currently there is no dropbox client for the ARM platform (which is what the Drobo is). You can vote for a Drobo-compatible client here: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/358/linux-arm-support
I don’t know about Gdrive, but I assume that any open-source client for Linux should be (in principle) be portable to the DroboFS.
voted.
I’ll rephrase:
Is there any way to upload a directory (for backup purposes) to a public (read: not maintained by me, may cost money) server?
Dror
There are least four known-to-work possibilities:
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Amazon S3. See http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=2141
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CrashPlan. See http://www.droboports.com/app-repository/crashplan-3-2-1 and then http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=11399
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Unison. See http://www.droboports.com/app-repository/unison-2-40-63 and then http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#tutorial
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Old school ssh+rsync. See http://www.droboports.com/app-repository/rsync-3-0-9 and then http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=2374
Pick your poison. 
Thanks for the reading material. Also checking out cyberduck.
Dror
From my readings in the web I got to this solution: Ubuntu One + this python lib.
Have you tried it / considered it?
If not - since I haven’t installed the python on my drobo - do you think it can work?
Here are the Prerequisites:
simplejson or cjson (or Python>=2.6, which comes with a simplejson-based JSON module in the standard library)
Python 2.4 or later
CouchDB 0.10.x or later (0.9.x should probably work, as well)
Hope to dig into this in the near future…
Dror
Hi Ricardo,
have you considered/tried using Ubuntu One + this python lib?
If not, I hope to try it in the near future - do you see any reason why it wouldn’t work? here are the Prerequisites:
simplejson or cjson (or Python>=2.6, which comes with a simplejson-based JSON module in the standard library)
Python 2.4 or later
CouchDB 0.10.x or later (0.9.x should probably work, as well)
Dror
Hi Ricardo,
have you considered/tried using Ubuntu One + this python lib?
If not, I hope to try it in the near future - do you see any reason why it wouldn’t work? here are the Prerequisites:
simplejson or cjson (or Python>=2.6, which comes with a simplejson-based JSON module in the standard library)
Python 2.4 or later
CouchDB 0.10.x or later (0.9.x should probably work, as well)
Dror
I’m not sure how Ubuntu One and CouchDB relate to this topic, since CouchDB is (was?) used on the server-side component of Ubuntu One, which is proprietary and not available for download (see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Contribute#Code_and_Licensing ).
If you are asking about running an Ubuntu One client on the FS, then I guess that it is possible, you just have to find a client that does not require a desktop environment. But in that case, I don’t see why you would need CouchDB as well.
Other than that, I’m pretty confident that you can run CouchDB on a DroboFS. I’m just wondering what would be the use case…
My main objective is to run a script on the drobo-fs that will backup my files to UbuntuOne. I thought the couchdb would be it because of this thread. I’ll need to dig in more and report back in a few weeks…
Dror