Drobo HT How-To Manual

Using Drobo Storage with CrashPlan Pro for On-Site & Cloud Backup
Protecting c ritical d ata i s k ey t o e nsuring b usiness c ontinuity.
Drobo s torage s ystems e xcel a s b ackup-­‐to-­‐disk t arget a s t hey
provide h igh t hroughput a nd r andom a ccess f or n ear
instantaneous f ile r estores t hat a ren't p ossible w ith t raditional
tape b ased s ystems.
While m aintaining o nsite b ackups i s t he f oundation o f a ny d isaster r ecovery p lan a s i t p rovides f or
nearly i nstant r ecovery, i t c annot p rotect a gainst p hysical o r n atural d isasters. P airing C rashPlan P ro w ith
a D robo p rovides n ot o nly t he b est o nsite b ackup, b ut a lso p rotected c loud s torage t hat i s i ncredibly
simple t o c onfigure a t a n a ffordable p rice p oint.
This d ocument o utlines t he s teps r equired t o c onfigure a D robo w ith C rashPlan P ro f or o n-­‐site a nd o ff-­‐
site c loud b ackup.
CrashPlan P ro i ncludes a dditional f eatures t hat a re b eyond t he s cope o f t his d ocument. F or d etails o n
additional f eatures a nd c apabilities o f C rashPlan P ro, c onsult t heir w ebsite:
http://www.crashplan.com/business/features.html
Topics
C reating D robo V olume(s)
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I nstalling t he C rashPlan P ro
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B acking u p S ystems t o D robo S torage
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B acking u p S ystems t o C rashPlan C
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What Y ou W ill N eed
The l atest D robo D ashboard a nd f irmware r elease
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Drobo d irect a ttached ( 5D/Mini) o r i SCSI s torage ( B800i/B1200i) d evice
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Windows S erver 2 003 R 2 / 2 008 / 2 008 R 2 o r O SX ( 10.7.x / 1 0.8.x)
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CrashPlan P ro A ccount
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Prerequisites
This document assumes that the Drobo has been deployed and configured with the most recent
firmware and the Drobo Dashboard is installed on the server that will be run the CrashPlan Pro
application. I f t hese p rerequisites h ave n ot b een m et, r eference t he U RLs b elow.
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