User guide

Drobo 5N Getting Started Guide 19
Where to Go Next
After you’ve set up your Drobo device, you’re ready to store and back up data onto it. Next steps
include the following. Click on a topic to learn more.
• Implementing best practices to maximize the safety of your data
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Ensuring optimal performance by keeping your software (Drobo Dashboard and your Drobo
device’s firmware) up to date
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Knowing how to safely shut down your Drobo device
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Using the Online User Guide and context-sensitive help to learn more about how to manage
and use your Drobo device
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Using our knowledge base to answer almost any additional question
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Registering your Drobo 5N
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Getting the support you may need
Using Best Practices
Although your Drobo device provides redundancy and automatically protects your data against a
drive failure, it should only be one part of an overall, digital asset management strategy.
To better safeguard your valuable data, we strongly encourage you to review our guide on
best practices, which can be found at
http://www.drobo.com/solutions/index.php.
Our guide offers strategies to protect data beyond drive failures. Following best practices will help
maximize the safety of your data.
Keeping Your Software Up to Date
To ensure optimal performance, we highly recommend that you set your Drobo device to
automatically check for software updates. (You may have already done this during the initial
setup.) This feature keeps both Drobo Dashboard and your product’s firmware current.
You can also install updates from
www.drobo.com/support/updates. If you would like to install a
firmware update from the Drobo website, see
Manually Updating Firmware from the Website.
This section covers the following topics:
Checking for Software Updates Automatically
Checking for Software Updates Now
Manually Updating Firmware from the Website