I noticed the need to make sure my pictures were always backed up to my Drobo, however, I did not want to use something like Time Machine from my mac because of how unconfigurable it really is. What I really wanted was to have my pictures that I download from my camera onto my laptop to automatically sync to the Drobo, but I didn't want them to be deleted from my laptop nor did I want the pictures already on my Drobo to be synced down to my laptop(way too many)
What I did was I built a simple script that mounts a Drab via a DroboShare and then another script that runs a simple rsync to sync pictures from my laptop to the mounted drobo.
The whole process is split into two scripts
mountdrobo.sh
and
syncpictures.sh
This allows me to use the mountdrobo.sh script from any other script in the future as you can use the isDroboMounted function after sourcing the script
You will have to edit the scripts and fill in the variables to make it work on your machine
The mount drobo is semi mac specific with the mount_smb command so you may want to change that to smbmount or mount.smbfs on linux
 mountdrobo.sh | [Mounts a drobo share over the network] | 1 Kb | 10/07/10 00:11 |
| syncpictures.sh | [Syncs pictures from one directory to another] | 1 Kb | 10/07/10 00:11 |
