If you are using crashplan ON your mac and selecting files ON your drobo to backup to crashplan central, then you are instructing your Mac to do the backingup of your drobo’s files to crashplan central, which is not what you want. Its not clear WHAT you are trying to backup, or WHERE to. Now dropbear is not running and my CP upload has stopped and the drobo “computer/destination” has gone grey instead of green: Working on another issue, I installed SSH to the drobo apps share and restarted. Also, I follow Katie Floyd’s instructions to install and CP appears to be installed correctly. So, my concern…Isn’t the 5N supposed to back up to CrashPlan with out having my computer on as well? The main reason I bought it was to do this in the background so the energy hog mac pro wouldn’t need to run all the time. The Drobo 5N destination reads “Destination unavailable-Backup location is not accessible.” I am able to select the files I want to backup that are on the drobo.

The CrashPlan central backup is running fine, so long as the mac pro is on. When I open the Crashplan interface on the mac pro I see as destinations: CrashPlan Central, and Drobo5N. Mac Pro also connected by ethernet to the TC. My drobo is connected by ethernet to a time capsule which is connected to my broadband router. Shouldn’t it be backing up when the drobo is on and the desktop is off? It appears my drobo 5N is backing up through my mac pro, but only when the mac pro is on.

Crashplan pro synology