Setting Up Your Drobo Device To Use Drobodr - Drobo 5N2 User Manual

1.9.2.2 Setting Up Your Drobo Device to Use DroboDR

To use DroboDR to replicate data from a source device to a destination device on the network, you
need to:
1. Ensure you have two Drobo devices on the network and that the two can "see" each other, either
by IP address or host name. (Host name refers to the name that's been assigned to the Drobo device
itself.) This means that the source and target must be on the same subnet and the subnet mask for
each must match.
Note:
If you would like to perform replication to an off-site destination, you will need
a VPN connection between the two Drobo NAS devices. For information on setting up a VPN
connection, see the following website.
The connection needs to be setup between two VPN routers with hosts available (running
VPN software) to access each of the Drobo devices. By default the external connection from
Drobo device must be from Ethernet port 1 on the back of each of the Drobo devices.
● Windows 7 - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Set-up-an-incoming-VPN-or-
dial-up-connection
2. Be sure to download and install the latest Drobo Dashboard application, which supports
DroboDR, and the latest firmware for your Drobo Device from
3. Configure one Drobo Device as the destination, or target. For steps, see
Destination Drobo Device.
4. Configure another Drobo Device as the source. For steps, see
Device.
Tip:
Because you will need to know the IP address of the destination Drobo device in order to
configure the source Drobo device, it's a good idea to configure the destination system first.
Related topics:
Configuring the Destination Drobo Device
Configuring the Source Drobo Device
Using DroboDR to Replicate Data
Drobo5N2 User Guide
http://www.drobo.com/docs/
Configuring the
Configuring the Source Drobo
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