Drobo B810n - Using Best Practices for Protecting Data; Keeping Your Software up to Date; Checking for Software Updates

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 Using the Knowledge Base
 Registering your Drobo B810n
 Getting Technical Support
3.1 Using best practices for protecting data
While Drobo protects B810n your data from a single drive failure and concurrent 2 drive failures
(when used in Dual Disk Redundancy setting) our data can still be lost. Drive head crash, damage to
the whole B810n device and disk pack, files corrupted before being saved to the Drobo B810n,
unsafe shutdowns, and other traumatic events can result in data loss.
So to know more specific guidelines on how to best protect your data, please visit our Best Practices
page. For additional information for professionals (Photographers, Videographers, etc.), please see
Photographers, Here’s A Bulletproof Backup Method Using Drobo.
Important Note:
To help protect your data, if you are unsure on how to proceed when using your Drobo B810n, it is very
important that you review the Online User Guide for your product, review our Knowledge Base articles,
or contact Drobo Support.
3.2 Keeping your software up to date
To ensure optimal performance for your Drobo B810n, we highly recommend you set your device to
automatically check for software updates (you may have already done this during the initial setup).
For more information, see Updating your Drobo B810n to the latest firmware. This feature keeps both
the Drobo Dashboard and your device’s firmware up to date.
You can also install updates from Start Drobo B810n page. If you would like to install a firmware
update from the Drobo website, see Manually updating firmware from the website for more
information.
3.2.1 Checking for software updates
The following steps ensure that the Drobo Dashboard and your Drobo B810n’s firmware are up to
date:
1. In the Drobo Dashboard, select the appropriate Drobo B810n from the All Drobos page.
2. Click the Tools option on the Navigation menu to open the Tools page.
3. In the Software Updates area of the Tools page, click the Check for Updates option.
Note:
If needed, ensure that you are logged in to this Drobo B810n.