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ioSafe R4 User's Manual

1. you can create a volume utilizing RAID level 0 1 or 5 specify the size of the volume delete a disk from a volume assign a hot spare etc 4 Multiple volumes are supported each with a different RAID level snapshot schedule and disk quota definition 5 Each disk can be replaced one by one then rebuilt after the last disk is replaced another data volume utilizing the newly added capacity can be configured gt ADVANTAGES OF X RAID 1 One volume technology but supports volume expansion either by adding more disks or by replacing existing disk with larger capacity disks 2 You can start out with one disk and add up to 3 more disks when you need them or can afford them 3 Volume management is automatic Add a 2 disk it becomes a mirror to the 1 Add a 3 your capacity doubles add a 4 and your capacity triples the expansion occurring while maintaining redundancy 4 At a future point in time each disk can be replaced one by one have it finish rebuilding and after the last disk is replaced your volume automatically expands utilizing the new capacity Volume Management for Flex RAID If you wish to reconfigure the default volume C wish to split it into multiple volumes or specify a different RAID level you will need to reconfigure your volume The first step is to delete the existing volume you wish to replace P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 37 gt DELETING A VOLUME To delete a
2. Adobe Acrobat Doc Adobe Acrobat Doc Adobe Acrobat Doc Adobe Acrobat Doc Adobe Acrobat Doc Dae Modified 3 20 2005 10 33 PM 4 2 2005 3 59 PM 6 14 2005 3 12 PM 6 14 2005 3 33 PM 2 15 2005 11 26 AM 3 27 2005 10 05 PM 4 28 2005 11 17 AM 3 20 2005 10 40 PM EEk E v Go Links Internet You can specify how long to keep the files in the Recycle Bin and how large the Recycle Bin can get before files get permanently erased Advanced CIFS Permission The Advanced CIFS Permission box offers options for setting the default permission of new files and folders created via CIFS The default permission of newly created files is read write for the owner and owner s group and read only for others i e everyone Permission for newly created folders is read write for everyone If the default doesn t satisfy your security requirement you can change it here Opportunistic locking often referred to as oplocks enhances CIFS performance by allowing files residing on the NAS to be cached locally on the Windows client thus eliminating network latency when the files are constantly accessed P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 gt ADVANCED OPTIONS The Advanced Options tab offers advanced low level file manipulation options that can affect remote file access through all file protocol interfaces Care should be taken before using these options as anything that changes ownership and permissions may no
3. Advanced Control Setup Wizard Fri Oct 24 16 49 05 2008 Select Disable full data journaling to substantially improve disk write performance During an unexpected power down without battery backup there is a small chance that parity written to a disk in a RAID set may become out of sync with the data disks possibly causing incorrect data to be recovered if one disk fails Select Disable journaling if you understand the consequences of this action and you do not mind a long file system check only after unexpected power failures File system journaling allows disk checks of only a few seconds verses possibly an hour or longer without journaling Disabling journaling will improve disk write performance slightly Note You can buy a UPS with USB monitoring at a very reasonable cost By safely allowing the performance options to be checked you can effectively double your write performance and provide uninterrupted service of your ioSafe R4 for a very low price P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 74 The Optimize for OS X option provides the best performance in Mac OS X environments when connected to the ioSafe R4 through the SMB CIFS protocol This option however introduces compatibility issues with Windows NT 4 0 do not enable this option if this device will be accessed by Windows NT 4 0 clients The Enable fast CIFS writes option allows for fast write performance by enabling aggressive write back cachin
4. In our example above we kept the maximum size that was calculated Click Apply and wait for the instruction to reboot the system It typically takes about 1 minute before you ate notified to reboot Windows Internet Explorer x The volume will not be added until you restart this device This process can take 30 minutes or more depending on your volume size during which you will not be able to access this device You will be notified by email when the volume add process is complete ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Volume C Volumes Home Logout gt Network gt Security gt Services Volumes Volume Settings USB Storage gt Shares eee This volume will not be added until you restart this device gt Printers a Restart now Abort volume add gt System gt Status Advanced Control Setup Wizard Fri Oct 24 08 55 07 2008 After rebooting you will then be notified by email when the volume has been added Use RAIDar to reconnect to the NAS device gt RAID SETTINGS After you have added a volume you can revisit the Volume tab and click on the RAID Settings tab to display the current RAID information and configuration options for the volume Notice the disk on channel 4 that we did not configure is listed in the Available Disks section We can add this disk as a hot spare by clicking on the Make hot spare button P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 40 ioSafe R4 powered by R
5. N oomo oo i bf TT _ internet 100 gt 4 Logs The Logs tab provides status information of management tasks along with a timestamp fa Gai Fe powered ET C ioSafe r Health Status Home gt Network gt Security _Clearloas_ Download All Logs gt Services gt Volumes Severity Date Message gt Shares z Mon Oct 27 11 51 43 PDT 2008 System is up Mon Oct 27 11 48 44 PDT 2008 Powering off device Mon Oct 27 11 48 43 PDT 2008 Please close this browser session and use RAIDar to reconnect to the device after it is powered back on System powering off Mon Oct 27 11 47 56 PDT 2008 Finance added with default access Please review the share access restrictions in the Share Listing page to fine tune any default settings gt Backup gt Printers gt System Status Mon Oct 27 11 47 55 PDT 2008 Drawings added with default access Please review the share access restrictions in the Share Listing page to fine tune any default settings Mon Oct 27 11 47 53 PDT 2008 Brochures added with default access Please review the share access restrictions in the Share Listing page to fine tune any default settings Mon Oct 27 11 29 35 PDT 2008 System is up Mon Oct 27 11 27 28 PDT 2008 Rebooting device Mon Oct 27 11 27 28 PDT 2008 Please close this browser session and use RAIDar to reconnect to the device System rebooting Advanced Control Setup Wizard The Download All Logs
6. Shutdown Options gt Services gt Volumes A Shutdown and turn off device gt Shares Backup Shutdown and reboot device gt Printers System Perform volume scan on next boot This process can take several minutes to more than an hour depending on disk capacity and volume content Check and fix quotas on next boot This process can take several minutes to more than an hour depending on disk capacity and the number of files on your volume Power gt Status Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply You have the option of performing a full file system check or quota check on the next boot Both these options can take several minutes to several hours depending on the size of your volume and the number of files in the volume You do not need to select these options unless you suspect there might be data or quota integrity problems When you reboot or shutdown the toSafe R4 you will need to close the browser window and use RAIDar to reconnect to FrontView P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 84 Status The Status page consists of the Health and Logs tabs providing system status information Health The Health page displays the disk fan power temperature and UPS status in detail When available normal expected values are provided _ fe ioSafe Status Home Logout gt Network gt Security gt Services Device Description Status Disk 1 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 48 C 118 F
7. os oo Power OFF 20 foo sa m E oox a I 00 Note When the ioSafe R4 is powered off any file transfers and backup jobs will be interrupted and backup jobs scheduled during the power off state will not be run gt UPS CONFIGURATION If this device is sharing a UPS with another toSafe R4 system but not directly monitoring the battery status through a USB connection you may elect to Enable monitoring of UPS physically attached to a remote ReadyNAS To use this feature check the box and enter the IP Address in the Remote IP address field of the ioSafe R4 system that is monitoring the UPS battery status UPS Configuration This device is not physically monitoring a UPS You may choose to monitor a UPS connected to a remote ReadyNAS On receiving a low battery event this ReadyNAS will shutdown gracefully M Enable monitoring of UPS physically attached to a remote ReadyNAS Remote IP address 192 168 1 10 As an option the toSafe R4 can remotely monitor the UPS when connected to a PC running Network UPS Tools NUT For more information about NUIT see http www networkupstools org P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 83 Shutdown The Shutdown tab offers the option to power off or reboot the ioSafe R4 device i ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS E e ioSafe Clock Alerts Performance Language Update Config Backup Power Shutdown System gt Network gt Security
8. P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 34 ra ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS oO ioSafe Standard File Protocols Rige inae Discovery Services Installed Add ons Services gt Network ome IM Refresh e toca gt Security Services SqueezeCenter enables streaming of music to SqueezeBox digital music players Remove gt Volumes gt Shares ReadyNAS gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status iTunes Streaming Server enables iTunes clients to stream media files from the media players Media share media z Media folder UPnP AV enables playback of videos music and pictures from UPnP AV network Automatically update database J Update media files daily at o 0 00 z Rescan media files Update media files Remove from network DVD and media players Media share Media folder Hidden folder Target JPEG output Slide show delay secs Bookmarks Allow delete from player Maximum playlist items Maximum lines displayed per page O Home Media Streaming Server enables playback of videos music and pictures Remote control code for hidden folder 3 digit number media z T m Remove Advanced Control Setup Wizard SquezeCenter SlimServer provides music streaming to the popular Squeezebox music players from Slim Devices iTunes Streaming Server enables iTunes clients to stream media files straight
9. Status Backup gt Printers NFS Server Rsync Server Share backup Share media Volume c USB Device Front Port L eS USB Device Rear Top Port ata saved As with the backup source the destination path can USB Device Rear Bottom Port a remote PC or device Select this ReadyNAS or remote x Path Login Password Test connection STEP 3 Choose backup schedule Select when you want the backup performed I Perform backup every 24 hours between 00 05 x and 23 05 x C Sun M Mon M Tue M Wed M Thu M Fri D Sat Select All Days _ STEP 4 Choose backup options Select the desired options when backup is performed A full backup will copy all data from the backup source Incremental backup where only changed data are copied occurs between scheduled full backups unless Every time is selected Schedule full backup First time On backup completion send errors only 7 to the alert email address m Remove the contents of the backup destination before a full backup is performed This will clean the backup destination of files which were removed in the backup source Warning This will delete all files and folders in the backup destination p Remove deleted files on backup target rsync only After backup is complete change ownership of files in the backup destination to the share owner if the destination is a ReadyNAS share This will allow access to backed up files in Share secur
10. amp Group Accounts ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO POR STU vwxyz All AddGroup gt Services gt Volumes Shares Name Quota MB Secondary Members gt Backup engr 2000 gt Printers gt System finance 1000 gt Status general 2000 marketing 1000 Advanced Control Setup Wizard If you wish to add a large number of groups select Import group list from the selection box 3 fia ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe Admin Password Security Mode p y y Security gt Network m z You can upload a CSV Comma delimited formatted file to simplify adding a list of Import group list z Security groups Click Help for format specification and examples gt Services Volumes 15 nne Tee gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System Status Advanced Control Setup Wizard P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 26 Here you can upload a CSV Comma Separated Value formatted file containing the group account information The format of the file is namel gidl quotal memberll member12 member13 name2 gid2 quota2 member21 member22 member23 name3 gid3 quota3 member31 member32 member33 Please note the following Spaces around commas are ignored The name fields are required Quota will be set to default if not specified GID will be automatically generated if not specified Empty fields are replaced with accounts defaults Group members ate option
11. ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Add Shares CIPS aFe HITTe S advanced Ootions Share Name backup Defoule Aoress Read write Shane access for the fle protecal can be nestncted using the access lisha below Senne esis wiih cinn Hoste alowed aCcEES ET Aees ony uy a Aeed onky groupe NU WATERERS uara Wirke enatied greups Allow gues scons Share Display Option You can elect to hide this share from browsing by selecting the option below If enabled users will mat see the share unless they explicitly apecty the share name in the browse path Please nate that enabling this option will disable access to the share from other file protocols I Aide this Shane when a user browses the ReadyNAS for dvailable shares Recycle Bin When enabled deleted files from this share will be dumped in the Recycle Bin folder in the root of the share where it will be kept up to the number of days and capacity specified Enable Recyde Bin Remove files older than 10 daye Limit Recycle Bin to E ME Advanced CIFS Permission C Automata set permiseens on new hes and folders FE De mot allow ACL changes to be more restrictive than this When ew files are created over CIFS set file permission a6 follows Group nghts are penmc ean for members of the file owners group Everyone refers fo all Other users mot in the file owner s group Group rights When new folders are created aver CIFS get folder permission as fol
12. 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 75 Language The Language tab offers the option of setting the ioSafe R4 device to the appropriate character set for file names _ fa ioSafe gt Network gt Security gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers System ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Clock Alerts Performance Update Config Backup Power Shutdown Language Setting system use the browser or operating system language setting to do this English Unicode z Allow Unicode for user group and share names I Enable character encoding conversion for FTP clients Select the the language that will be predominantly used by users of this device This setting is important to ensure proper filename listing in shares and proper handling of email messages Please note that this option does not affect the web browser language display of this management If you select Unicode for above language setting you can optionally use Unicode for user group and share names This option cannot be disabled once you enable this option Please note that HTTP WebDAV cannot use user names using Unicode Also some other restrictions may apply If your FTP client uses a different character encoding than your ReadyNAS s character encoding specified above the FTP server on ReadyNAS can convert it when you check the box below Advanced Control Control Setup Wizard For example select
13. IOSAFE R4 32 Services The Services menu allows you to manage various services for share access This in effect controls the type of clients you wish to allow access to the ioSafe R4 A inSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe i Senei Eee Streaming Services Discovery Services Installed Add ons Services gt Network Security Select the file sharing protocol you wish to enable In general disable the protocols you do not intend pom to use You can always enable them later Click Help for more information ervices Standard File Protocols Vv CIFS or Common Internet File System used predominantly by Windows Mac OS X also Streaming Services supports this protocol though it may be referred to as SMB Discovery Services Installed Add ons NFS or Network File System widely used in Unix or Linux environments Mac OS X also supports this protocol gt Volumes gt Shares ap AFP or Apple Filing Protocol popular in Mac environments AFP provides better support 5 for a larger range of characters in filenames and is preferred where this is important gt Printers System V Advertise AFP service over Bonjour gt Status 7 Advertise AFP service over AppleTalk FTP or File Transfer Protocol used extensively for basic file upload and downloads If you will be making FTP service available to this device outside the firewall you can specify a custom port for added security Port Sid Authentication mode
14. NTP Server i ftime e netgear com NTP Server 2 time h netgear com Advanced Control Setup Wizard gt NTP OPTION You can elect to synchronize the system time on the device with a remote NTP Network Time Protocol server You can elect to keep the default servers or enter up to two NTP servers closer to yout locale Available public NTP servers can be found by searching the web P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 69 Alerts gt ALERTS CONTACTS The Contacts tab allows you to specify up to three email addresses where system alerts will be sent The ioSafe R4 device has a robust system monitoring feature and sends email alerts if something appears to be wrong or when a device has failed Make sure to enter a primary email address and a backup one if possible fh ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS o ioSafe Performance Language Update Config Backup Power Shutdown gt Network Security In the event of device or enclosure failure quota violation low disk space and other system events y requiring attention email alerts will be sent gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares Contacts Settings SNMP SMTP gt Backup gt Printers System Enter the alert contact email addresses where alert messages should be sent Enter email address es Alert Contact 1 mike abc com Send Test Message Alert Contact 2 mary abe com Alert Contact 3 A Advanced Control Setup
15. SMTP If your firewall setting prevents alert messages from being sent by the embedded SMTP server or if your ISP blocks SMTP port 25 enter a remote SMTP server that alert email messages can be routed through Some SMTP servers will reject non fully qualified hostnames so you may need to change the hostname of this device to FQDN format in the Network tab i e use myhost domain com instead of myhost SMTP server mailabed com SMTP port 25 User mike abce com Password eccccces Internet Service Providers ISP for home may also block untrusted MT A s Furthermore they may allow you to specify their SMTP server but require you to enter a user login and password to send out email this is common with most DSL services If this is the case simply enter the user name and password in the fields provided P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 73 Performance If you wish to tweak the system performance select the Performance tab in the System menu Note that some of the settings suggest that you utilize an Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS before enabling that option ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS git ioSafe Clock Alerts Eefatelaut late Language Update Config Backup Power Shutdown System gt Network cicada Performance Options gt Services You can select from the following options to tune your system for better performance Keep in mind that these options will introduce a slight ris
16. UPS Configuration This device is not physically monitoring a UPS You may choose to monitor a UPS connected to a remote ReadyNAS On receiving a low battery event this ReadyNAS will shutdown gracefully l Enable monitoring of UPS physically attached to a remote ReadyNAS Remote IP address Setup Wizard P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 Apply Note Enabling disk spin down will disable journal mode Once enabled if you decide to disable disk spin down you will need to manually re enable journal mode if desired A UPS is recommended if you utilize this option gt POWER TIMER The ioSafe R4 can be scheduled to power off and power back on automatically Select the Enable power timer checkbox and enter the desired action and time Power Timer This device can power itself on and off automatically on a schedule Note that if you schedule this device to power off data transfers will be interrupted and pending backup jobs will not run Also note that some devices will not support scheduled power ON and you will not see this option in the Action list M Enable power timer Action Time Action Time Sun a fooxl oo x Mon Power ON os o0 2 Power oFF 20 00 Tue Power On os oo Power oF 20 00 Wed Power ON x fos foo Power OFF 20 F oo Thu Power ON os oo Power OFF 20 foo Fri Power ON
17. Wizard Apply Some email addresses can be tied to a mobile phone This is a great way to monitor the device when you are away from your desk P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 70 gt ALERTS SETTINGS This ioSafe R4 device has been pre configured with mandatory and optional alerts for various system device warnings and failures The Settings tab allows you to control the settings for the optional alerts In the event of device or enclosure failure quota violation low disk space and other system events requiring attention email alerts will be sent Contacts Settings SNMP SMTP Alert Events Select the system warnings you wish to have alerts enabled Unless you receive constant spurious alerts do not disable any warnings Disabling Disk Temperature option will disable SMART temperature monitoring which may alleviate certain disks that are prone to locking up on SMART commands M Board Temperature M Disk Failure M Disk Full M Disk Temperature M Fan Z Power M Quota Exceeded MM ups iM Volume Other Alert Settings Power off ReadyNAS when a disk fails or no longer responds M Power off ReadyNAS when disk temperature exceeds safe levels M Resync RAID volume s on improper shutdowns This is recommended It is highly recommended that all alerts are kept enabled however you may choose to disable an alert if you are aware of a problem and wish to temporarily disable it At bottom of the tab under the Ot
18. disk in the RAID set multiplied by the number of disks in the set For example a four disk RAID 0 will yield the capacity of all four disks assuming they are identical in size RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 consists of 2 or more disks all disk s other than the first being an exact mirror of the first RAID level 1 can sustain disk failure up to the total number of disks in the RAID set minus one For example a two disk RAID 1 volume can sustain a one disk failure and continue running A three disk RAID 1 volume can sustain up to two disk failures If a disk fails the data is retrieved from the surviving disk Unfortunately RAID 1 capacity utilization is not optimal in a three or more disk configuration The capacity is limited to the size of the smallest disk in the RAID set RAID Level 5 RAID level 5 provides the best balance of capacity and performance while providing data redundancy RAID 5 provides redundancy by striping data across three or more disks and keeping the parity information on one of the disks in each stripe In case of disk failure the surviving disks and the parity disk are used to reconstruct the lost data providing that data transparently to the user application Upon replacing the failed disk with a good disk the reconstructed data is written out to the new disk and when the reconstruction or sometimes referred as re sync process is complete the volume returns to a redundant state The capacity of a RAID 5 volume is th
19. group accounts to allow for more specific share access restrictions Access to shares requires proper login authentication and you can specify which users and or groups you wish to offer access As an example you may want to restrict company financial data to just users belonging to one particular group In this security mode the administrator will need to set up and maintain user and group accounts on the ioSafe R4 device itself In addition each user account will be automatically set up with a private home share on the ioSafe R4 The Domain security mode is most appropriate for larger department or corporate environments where a centralized Windows based domain controller or active directory server is present The ioSafe R4 device integrates in this environment by creating a trusted relationship with the domain ADS authentication server and allowing all user authentications to occur there eliminating the need for separate account administration on the device itself Also in this security mode each domain ADS user will be automatically set up with a private home share on the ioSafe R4 P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 22 Note The FrontView management system will slow down in proportion to the number of users in the domain It is not advisable to use the ioSafe R4 in a domain environment with more than 1000 users Share Security Mode The Share security mode is the easiest security option to set up gt SPECIFY A WORK
20. have password wwbiswif belongs to group ourgroup email notification sent to wilma bedrock com UID set to 225 and quota set to 50MB gt SETTING ACCOUNTS PREFERENCES You can set various account defaults by selecting the Preferences option in the drop down box _ ioSafe Security gt Network gt Security gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System Status Advanced Control Admin Password Security Mode RNase Set default parameters for new accounts ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS rome Es ee es Preferences i Default group for new users Private home shares for users Default home volume for new users Export home shares over NFS Make home shares available over FTP Recycle Bin for private home shares Remove Recycle Bin files older than this many days Limit Recycle Bin to this many MB Allow users to change their passwords Warn user when disk usage is users Disabled Disabled Disabled TE Enabled s0 of quota Setup Wizard P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 Domain Security Mode gt DOMAIN ADS AUTHENTICATION If you choose the Domain security mode option you will need to create a trusted relationship with the domain controller or the active directory server ADS that will act as the authentication server for the toSafe R4 device You will need the following information Domain nam
21. icons in those columns summarize the access rights to the share for each of the services You can move the mouse pointer over the access icons to get a quick glimpse of the access settings Disabled Read only Access ley Read Write Access Read Access with exceptions Wrote Access with exceptions The settings represent Disabled Access to this share is disabled Read only Access Access to this share is read only Read Write Access Access to this share is read write Read Access with exceptions Either 1 access to this share is read only and only allowed for specified hosts 2 access is read only except for one of mote users or groups P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 52 that are granted read write permission or 3 access is disabled except for one or mote users or groups that are granted read only privilege Write Access with exceptions Either 1 access to this share is read write and only allowed for specified hosts 2 access is read write except for one or more users or groups that are restricted to read only access or 3 access is disabled except for one or more users of groups that are granted read write privilege You can click on the access icons to bring up the Share Options tab where you can set the access tules for each file protocol Keep in mind that access options will differ between protocols gt SETTING SHARE ACCESS IN SHARE MODE In Share mode the CIFS Wind
22. length must be 15 characters or less Host A valid IP address or a host name Host Name A valid host name must conform to the following restrictions Name must consist only of characters a z A Z 0 9 and the symbols dash and period Name must start with a letter A short host name length must be 15 characters ot less A fully qualified domain name FQDN must have no more than 63 characters in each section separated by period and cannot end with a dash Example of a valid FQDN firstpart secondpart thirdpart com ioSafe R4 Host Name A valid host name except the first part or short host name must be 15 characters or less due to NetBIOS name length restriction P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 110 Host Expression A valid host expression is either a valid host or the common IP expression form specifying a range of addresses in a network for example 192 168 2 192 168 2 0 255 255 255 0 192 168 2 0 24 Share Name Name must consist only of characters a z A Z 0 9 and the symbols dash and period Name cannot be an existing user name Name cannot end in snap Name cannot be any one of the following reserved names bin boot cdrom dev etc floppy frontview home initrd lib lost found mnt opt proc root sbin tmp usr var admin administrator images language guota user quota group shares global homes printers diag e d e Toh j Share name c
23. link is available in case of problems where technical support personnel may be of assistance in analyzing low level log information A zip file of all logs is downloaded and can be attached to an email for further technical support P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 86 Chapter This chapter presents examples of how shares on the ioSafe R4 device can be accessed by the vatious operating systems If you have problems accessing your shares make sure to enable the corresponding service in the Shares Services tab Also make sure the default access of the share is set to Read only or Read write P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 87 Windows To see a share listing under Windows either click Browse in RAIDar or enter Lostname ot p_address in the Explorer address bar Hostname is the NAS hostname assigned in the Network tab The default hostname is set to nas followed by the last three hex bytes of the device MAC address E nas 00 10 40 nas 00 10 40 File Edit View Favorites Tools Help sax JO search gt Folders Fza Address W nas 00 10 40 Network Tasks if Add a network place View network connections Other Places gly Volume Entire Network Jan a z a ig My Computer Stylus_Photo_12 Printers and Faxes My Documents eS Printers and Faxes Details To access the share under Windows specify the hostname followed by the share name in the E
24. or manually loading an update image downloaded from the toSafe Support website gt REMOTE UPDATE The preferred and quicker method if the 1oSafe R4 has Internet access is the Remote update option P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 77 ra ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe Clock Alerts Performance Language ites Config Backup Power Shutdown System gt Network Security Select the Remote option if this device is connected to the Internet Local option to upload an og ark age update image from your system or Factory Default if you wish to destructively clear the device gt Volumes Shares Remote Local Settings Factory Default gt Backup gt Printers Click Check for Update to check if a remote update image is available System Check for Update Status ee Advanced Control Sa Simply click Check for Update to check for updates on the toSafe update server fa ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe Clock Alerts Performance Language ieee Config Backup Power Shutdown System gt Network Security Select the Remote option if this device is connected to the Internet Local option to upload an raga a update image from your system or Factory Default if you wish to destructively clear the device gt Volumes gt Shares Remote Local Settings Factory Default gt Backup gt Printers A firmware update is available Click Perform Syst
25. share level disk quota A disk quota value of 0 disables quota enforcement gt Volumes Name Description Password optional Quota MB Brochures Marketing Brochures eccceeee 1000 Drawings Engineering Drawings ZOI 2000 Backup Finance Company Finance ecccceee fo gt Printers Deea e gt System gt Status Shares Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply In the User or Domain security modes the Add Share tab consists only of fields for the share name and description Password and disk quotas are account specific P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 50 A ioSafe Share List Pl ESE Shares ES ES m en gt Network gt Security Enter the share names and descriptions you wish to add Deselect the Public Access checkbox if you wish to enable user authentication for access to this share via CIFS and AFP protocols ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS gt Services gt Volumes Name Description Public Access Shares Brochures Marketing Brochures Vv Drawings Engineering Drawings gt Backup Finance Company Finance gt Printers A TE gt System gt Status Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply In either case you can add up to five shares at a time Once you finish adding the shares you can refer to Chapter 2 for instructions on how to access them from different client interfaces Managing Shares Once you have added shares you may want to manually f
26. the lower portion of the USB Storage tab you ll notice the USB Flash Device Option There you can elect to copy the content of a USB flash device automatically on connect to a specified share Files are copied into a unique timestamp folder to prevent overwriting previous contents This is useful for uploading pictures from digital cameras and music from MP3 players without needing to power on a PC In User security mode an additional option to set the ownership of the copied files is available P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 49 Shares The Shares menu provides all the options pertaining to share services for the toSafe R4 device This entails share management including data and print shares volume management and share service management We ll first look at how we can control the services Adding Shares To add a share click on the Volume tab If more than one volume is configured click on the volume you wish to add the share The Add Shate tab has two looks depending on the security mode In the Share mode you will enter the share name description and optional password and disk quota The share password and share disk quota is available only in this security mode ja ioSafe RA powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe ii Share List Add Shares Shares Mome Logout gt Network gt Security Enter the share names and descriptions you wish to add You can optionally specify a share Services password and
27. to communicate with each other as if they were on the same physical network This device can be a member of a VLAN network by enabling the option and specifying a VLAN tag below However do not enable this option unless you are sure your clients also support VLAN Otherwise you will not be able to access this device and you may have to return it to your vendor to restore access VLAN settings will take effect on the next boot f Enable VLAN support VLAN tag o If you wish to use the ioSafe R4 in a VLAN environment select the Enable VLAN support checkbox and input a numeric VLAN tag You will need to reboot the toSafe R4 for the VLAN function to take effect P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 15 Warning Do not enable VLAN support unless you are sure your clients also support VLAN Otherwise you can lose network access to the ioSafe R4 and you may need to perform a firmware re installation to disable the VLAN setting gt PERFORMANCE SETTING The Enable jumbo frames option allows you to optimize the 1oSafe R4 for large data transfers such as multiple streams of video playback Select this option if your NIC and your gigabit switch support jumbo frames Performance Settings Use these options to tweak network performance M Enable jumbo frames Jumbo frames allows combining of multiple packets into one large packet reducing network overhead and increasing large packet transfer performance When a jumbo frame capabl
28. volume click on the volume tab of the volume you wish to delete or Volume C if only one volume is configured Make sure if you have data in that volume that you back up the files you wish to keep first All shares files and snapshots residing on that volume WILL BE DELETED AND ARE NON RECOVERABLE ih ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe dia Volumes Home Logout gt Network gt Security Disk space 542 MB 0 of 2080 GB used Services No space allocated for snapshots Volumes RAID Settings Snapshot Shares RAID Configuration gt Backup gt Printers i a Configuration RAID Level 5 4 disks gt System a Status Redundant gt Status RAID Disks e Ch 1 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 696 GB allocated Ch 2 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 696 GB allocated Ch 3 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 696 GB allocated Ch 4 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 696 GB allocated Advanced Control Setup Wizard Click Delete Volume in the Volume C tab You will be asked to confirm your intention by typing DELETE VOLUME Windows Internet Explorer x Deleting this volume will permanently remove all shares and data on this volume including user poise aortic egg ee ee E the first available volume after this volume is deleted Srp aare emo oar ara process even if the shares reside on other volumes Explorer User Prompt xj cane T type DELETE VOLUME o proceed type DE
29. web browser and their existing password to log in to Aitps 7_addr to access the web share listing page Then select the Password tab and follow the prompts to set a new password fa ReadyNAS R4 ioSafe Shares BEES My Shares If you wish to change your password enter new password below and click Change Password Account admin Password Re type password Change Password In Share and Domain security mode the Password tab will not appear Note User passwords in Domain mode must be set on the domain or ADS server P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 107 Appendix RAID can be somewhat daunting this appendix will help simplify RAID for you RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks Basically if properly configured it can store data on multiple disks in a way that if one disk fails the data can still be accessed from the surviving disk s A RAID level selects how data will be kept redundant the most popular ones being levels 0 1 and 5 Contrary to the RAID acronym RAID level 0 does not provide any redundancy RAID Level 0 RAID level 0 provides the best write performance of all the RAID levels as it stripes data across all disks so that data can be written to all disks in parallel Unfortunately it is not redundant so if one disk fails the entire volume will fail RAID level 0 can be configured with one or mote disks and tts capacity is the size of the smallest
30. you wish to connect to and click OK nas 00 10 40 Select the volumes you wish to mount backup f Cancel aan P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 93 You should see the same files in the share that you do under Windows Explorer eee backup feo M S y A Back View Computer Home Favorites Applications 8 items 292 76 GB available iG Entertainment Center PSD Exterior Paint doc Image 1 gif e Gir a kitchen gif Nook doc UC Costs_xls UC Kitchen doc Window Bench doc P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 94 Linux Unix To access this share from a Linux or Unix client you will need to mount the share over NFS te type mount ipaddr backup backup where backup is the share name Running the Is command in the mounted path displays the share content nemo PuTTY Note The toSafe R4 does not support NIS as it is unable to correlate NIS information with CIFS logins In mixed environments where CIFS and NFS integration is desired you can set the security to User mode and manually specify the UID and GID of the user and group accounts to match your NIS or other Linux Unix server settings The ioSafe R4 provides the ability to import a comma delimited file containing the user and group information to coordinate Linux Unix login settings Please see the Managing Users section for more information P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 95 Web Br
31. your data volume will be fully redundant The process occurs in the background so access to the toSafe R4 is not interrupted gt ADDING A 38 AND 4 DISK FOR MORE CAPACITY At a certain point you will want more capacity With typical RAID volumes you will have to backup your data to another system with enough space add a new disk reformat your RAID volume and restore your data back to the new RAID volume Not so with X RAID Simply power down the device add the 3 and perhaps 4 disk and power on The X RAID device will initialize and scan the newly added disk s for bad sectors in the background You can continue working normally with the device during this process without any lag in performance When the process finishes you will be alerted by email to reboot the device During the boot process your data volume is expanded This process typically takes about 15 30 minutes per disk perhaps more depending on the size of your disks A 250GB disk takes approximately 30 minutes Access to the ioSafe R4 is not permitted during this tme You will be notified by email when the process is complete After you receive your email the ioSafe R4 will have been expanded with the capacity from your new disk s gt REPLACING ALL YOUR DISKS FOR EVEN MORE CAPACITY A couple years down the line you find the need mote disk space and 1 TB disks are available at an attractive price Again you can expand your volume capacity quite easily alt
32. 0 00 z V Home Media Streaming Server enables playback of videos music and pictures from network DVD and media players Media share meda Media folder Hidden folder eee Remote control code for hidden folder 3 digit number Target JPEG output 720 Slide show delay secs 10 Bookmarks Enabled Allow delete from player Disabled Maximum playlist items zoo Maximum lines displayed per page ka Consult the Device Compatibility list for information on which DVD players and media adapters will work with Netgear s ReadyNAS technology P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 100 Chapter Locate the Failed Disk When a disk fails in your toSafe R4 device you will be notified of the failure by email The failed disk location can be seen in the FrontView status bar at the bottom gt Network gt Security Services Device Description Status Volumes oO Disk 1 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 40 C 104 F Write cache ON SMART OK Shares oO Disk 2 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 39 C 102 F Write cache ON SMART OK gt Backup oO Disk 3 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 34 C 93 F Write cache ON SMART OK gt Printers oO Disk 4 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 36 C 96 F Write cache ON SMART OK System Fan 6490 RPM Recalibrate OK Staius Fan2 6750 RPM Recalibrate OK oO Fan 3 6490 RPM Recalibrate OK oO Power 1 5v 1 616v OK Power25v 2624v OK oO Power 3 3
33. 00 00 will take one snapshot at midnight A start time of 00 00 and end time of 23 00 will take snapshots between midnight and 11pm the next day at the interval you specify Once you save the snapshot schedule the time of the next snapshot will be displayed When the next snapshot is taken the previous one is replaced ioSafe Volumes gt Network gt Security gt Services Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status Advanced Control ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Home Volume C Disk space 129 MB 0 of 1917 GB used Additional 100 GB reserved for snapshots RAID Settings Snapshot Snapshot schedule Assign a snapshot interval that fits the usage pattern for this volume Any change in the shares on this volume takes up space in the snapshot so choose an interval that fits your backup requirement but make sure the snapshot space does not get depleted M Take snapshot every 4 hours between 00 00 and 23 00 D sun M Mon M Tue M Wed M The M Fri D Sat lasting 2 7 hours Take snapshot now Snapshot space The snapshot space should be set to a value that will fit the amount of changes you will make while a snapshot is active Any file addition changes or deletions will affect the snapshot space usage Reduction in the snapshot space will increase your volume Changing snapshot space requires a reboot and can take 30 minutes or longer while the volum
34. 128 MB 0 of 2015 GB used No fors Space allocated To napshots RAID Settings Snapshot Snapshot space The snapshot space should be set to a value that will fit the amount of changes you will make while a snapshot is active Any file addition changes or deletions will affect the snapshot space usage Reduction in the snapshot space will increase your volume Changing snapshot space requires a reboot and can take 30 minutes or longer while the volume is being resized Note that this process will remove any existing snapshot shares Space reserved for snapshots 100 GB Advanced Control Setup Wizard Thu Oct 23 15 41 40 2008 The process of resizing the snapshot space can take awhile depending on your data volume size and the number of files in your volume Expanding the snapshot space will reduce your data volume size and reducing the snapshot space will expand it Note Due to the nature of how snapshots work you will encounter a drop in write performance when a snapshot is active If your environment requires the highest throughput in performance the active snapshot should be deleted or you should set a limit on how long the snapshot should last USB Storage The USB tab displays the USB disk and flash devices connected to the ioSafe R4 and offers various options for these devices A flash device will appear as USB_FLASH_1 and a disk device will appear as USB_HDD_1 If you have multiple devices
35. B bitte 192 168 2 LOS flack ponies Refresh Location backup Cl E Entertainment Center PsD 10 11 01 12 09 pm 114M oO E Hook coc 10 12 01 11 50 pm 105 K El E UC Coste xis 01 06 02 1 09 pm 15 50 O E UC Erteher eios 01 05 02 1 36 pm 169 50 amp El El Window Dench 2 dec 10 17 01 11 34 pin 57 50 K gO E Window Bench odad 10 17 01 11 39 pm 5 K O E kitchen gif 11 27 98 8 24 pm 10 84 K One useful application for a web share is for setting up an internal company website You can copy HTML files to the web share using Windows Mac NFS or HTTP When you set HTTP access to read only html files including index htm and index html can be viewed using any web browser Note Files created under the Web file manager can only be deleted under this file manager The only exception is the admin user who can change or delete any files created through the web Files not created from this file manager can be modified within the file manager but cannot be deleted here P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 97 FTP FTPS To access the share via FTP in Share security mode use anonymous as the login and your email address as the password Note Enabling FTP access in Share mode opens up the share to anyone who has an FIP client on your network It is best to enable FIP access only to shares you ate comfortable making public on your network Warning Disk usage using FTP in Share mode does not count towards t
36. Delete Print Job to remove them from the print queue P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 61 Backup The Backup manager integrated with the 1oSafe R4 allows the ioSafe R4 to act as a backup appliance Backup tasks can be controlled directly from the toSafe R4 without the need for a client based backup application With the flexibility to support full and incremental backups across FTP HTTP CIFS SMB and NES protocols the toSafe R4 can act as a simple central repository for both home and office environments And with multiple ioSafe R4 systems you can set up one toSafe R4 to backup another directly Adding a New Backup Job To create a new backup job click on the Add a New Backup Job tab You will notice a 4 step procedure on creating a job P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 62 A ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSate Backup Listing Bee M ETA EE alfa lela p y y gt Network gree i STEP 1 Select backup source gt Services gt Volumes Specify what you want to backup The path you want to backup can be in a share on this device a Shares USB disk attached to this device will show up as a share or located remotely The backup source and destination cannot both be remote shares Select this ReadyNAS or remote Y Path eer Select this ReadyNAS or remote TE p k Windows NAS Timestamp ogin assword Windows Archive Bit gt System Website z FTP Site Test connection gt
37. E LIMITED WARRANTY IOSAFE DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REGARDING THE PRODUCTS INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU Return Material Authorization RMA No Product may be returned directly to ioSafe without first contacting ioSafe for a Return Material Authorization RMA number If it is determined that the Product may be defective you will be given an RMA number and instructions for Product return An unauthorized return i e one for which an RMA number has not been issued will be returned to you at your expense Authorized returns are to be shipped prepaid and insured to the address on the RMA in an approved shipping container To request an RMA please refer to the ioSafe web site at www iosafe com Extended Warranty Customers can purchase an extended warranty on eligible ioSafe products with less than a 5 year warranty The maximum warranty period for these products including any warranty extension cannot be longer than 5 years from the date of purchase Extended warranty is currently available for purchase online P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 3 LIMITATION OF REMEDIES YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY DEFECTIVE PRODUCT IS LIMITED TO THE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT OF THE DEFECTIVE PRODUCT ioSafe may elec
38. FS share from the console terminal Rsync server select this if you wish to perform backups from a rsync server Rsync was originally available for Linux and other flavors of Unix but has lately become popular under Windows and Mac for its efficient use of incremental file transfers This is the preferred backup method between two ioSafe R4 systems Once you have selected a backup source you can enter the path from that source If you selected a ioSafe R4 share you can either leave the path blank to backup the entire share or enter a folder path Note that you should use forward slashes in place of backslashes If you selected a remote source each remote protocol uses a slightly different notation for the path If the path field is empty selecting the remote source in the pull down menu shows an example format of the path Following are some examples Examples of a FTP path ftp myserver mypath mydir ftp myserver mypath mydir myfile Examples of a Website path http www mywebsite com http 192 168 0 101 mypath mydir Examples of a Windows or remote NAS path myservet myshare myservet myshare myfolder 192 168 0 101 myshare myfolder Examples of NFS path mysetver mypath 192 168 0 101 mypath myfolder Examples of Rsync path mysetvet mymodule mypath 192 168 0 101 mymodule mypath Examples of local path myfolder media Videos My Folder My Documents My Pictures P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER G
39. GROUP You only need to specify a workgroup if you wish to change it from the default Share Fit for home or small office Select this option if you would like to restrict share access with the use of an optional share password Each user accesses the shares on the device as a common guest user and will have the same read write privilege as other users This option supports setting disk quotas on a per share basis Workgroup WORKGROUP A valid workeroup name must conform to the following restrictions Name must consist of characters a z A Z 0 9 and the symbols _ underscore dash and period Name must start with a letter Name length must be 15 characters or less gt SHARE ACCOUNTS You will notice the Accounts tab which consists of share accounts which match the current share names on the ioSafe R4 These share accounts ate listed to allow you the option of changing the UID and quota assigned to the share The share quota can be changed from the Share Listing in the Share menu as well The UID does not need to be changed unless you wish to avoid a UID conflict with an existing NFS user User Security Mode In User security mode you specify a workeroup name just as you would in the previous security option and create user and group accounts You will have control over how much disk space is allocated for each uset or group In this security mode each user will be given a home share on the ioSafe R4 dev
40. LET E VOLUME P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 38 gt ADDING A VOLUME You will then be presented with the Add Volume tab listing the available configurable space on the hard disks All the disks will be selected by default You can elect to specify a hot spare disk if you wish A hot spate remains in standby mode and will automatically regenerate the data from a failed disk from the volume A hot spare disk is only available for RAID level 1 and RAID level 5 if there are enough disks to fulfill the required minimum plus one ii ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS afe p V y o iOS Volumes Home gt Network PA i z accel STEP 1 Select disks to include in the new volume gt Services Volumes Available Hot Spare J Channel 1 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 712884 MB i Volume Settings USB Storage Shares JV Channel 2 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 712884 MB gt Backup JV Channel 3 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 712884 MB Printers Channel 4 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 712884 MB gt System gt Status STEP 2 Select RAID level and snapshot space Select RAID level Space reserved for snapshots STEP 3 Select volume capacity Physical capacity selected 2138654 MB Volume overhead RAID Snapshot FS 805322 MB Maximum volume size 1333332 MB Desired volume size 1333332 MB Advanced Control Setup Wizard Fri Oct 24 08 48 07 2008 Select Hard Disks In our example h
41. P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 14 Note If you elect to assign the IP address using DHCP it is advisable to set the lease time on the DHCP server router to a value of at least a day Otherwise you may notice that the toSafe R4 IP address may change even when it has been powered down for only a few minutes Most DHCP servers allow you to assign a static IP address for specified MAC addresses If you have this option this would be a good way to ensure your ioSafe R4 maintains the same IP address even in DHCP mode gt SPEED DUPLEX MODE If you have a managed switch that works best if the devices are forced to a particular speed or duplex mode you can select the desired setting It s advisable to keep the setting in auto negotiation mode otherwise Speed Duplex mode Auto negotiation MTU Auto negotiation 100Mb Full Duplex 100Mb Half Duplex gt MTU In some network environments changing the default MTU value may fix throughput problems It s advisable to leave the default setting otherwise Speed Duplex mode Auto negotiation MTU 1500 gt VLAN SETTING Virtual Local Area Network or VLAN allows devices residing on different segments of a LAN to appear in the same segment or conversely allows devices on the same switch to behave as though they belong to a different LAN VLAN Setting Virtual Local Area Networking or VLAN allows devices on different physical LAN segments
42. R4 skip to Chapter 2 Accessing Shares In the event of a disk failure the proper procedure for replacing the failed disk is in Chapter 3 Replacing a Failed Disk Sometimes it may be necessary to re install the firmware or reset the system back to the factory default configuration Chapter 4 System Reset Switch explains the process for doing both Chapter 5 Changing User Passwords covers how non admin users can access FrontView to change their password For an explanation of the RAID levels that the toSafe R4 supports please refer to Appendix A RAID Levels Simplified If you have questions on what constitutes a valid input for host name workgroup or password Appendix B Input Field Format describes these and more Appendix C Glossary provides definitions for some of the technical terminologies used in this document If you need help during setup refer to Appendix D If You Need Help P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 10 Chapter FrontView Advanced Control The Advanced Control mode offers the all settings available in the Setup Wizard plus more Ioi x cert fica te Error 4 x Google Pp lz We BM ioSafe Frontview nas 10 1A 17 fh gt Gl gt a e l page O Toos _ fe ioSafe Home gt Network Security You are in Advanced Control mode In Advanced Control mode you have access to additional options not r available in th
43. REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 12 Move the mouse cursor over the LED to display more information on the device or click on it to display the status in more detail Right above the status bar is the action bar To the left are the Advanced Control and Setup Wizard buttons To the right is the Apply button Use this to save any changes in the current menu page P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 13 Network Ethernet The Ethernet tab allows you to specify network tnterface specific settings In the Standard Setting box you can specify the IP address network mask speed duplex mode and MTU settings In most networks where a DHCP server is enabled you can simply specify the Use values from a DHCP server option to automatically set the IP address and network mask fa ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS o ioSafe ZEI Ethernet 2 Global Settings WINS DHCP Route Network Thome Mogon Interfaces Standard Setting Global Settings wanes Enter the IP address for this network interface If your network utilizes a DHCP server to hand out IP addresses select the DHCP option for your IP assignment method Otherwise enter the IP DHCP address netmask and gateway values accordingly gt Security gt Services MAC address 00 0D A2 10 1A 17 7 Volumes Status online 100 Mbit Full Duplex Show errors Reset error counts gt Shares gt Backup P IP assignment Use values from a DHCP server z Renew no
44. SIGN CAUSED BY ANY DEFECT OR BY THE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT OF PRODUCTS ARISING FROM A DEFECT IN ANY PRODUCT THIS SECTION DOES NOT LIMIT LIABILITY FOR BODILY INJURY OF A PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE LIMITATIONS ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE Your Use of the Product ioSafe will have no liability for any Product returned if ioSafe determines that e The product was stolen from ioSafe e The asserted defect A is not present B cannot reasonably be fixed because of damage occurring when the Product is in the possession of someone other than ioSafe or C is attributable to misuse improper installation alteration including removing or obliterating labels and opening or removing external covers unless authorized to do so by ioSafe or an authorized Service Center accident or mishandling while in the possession of someone other than ioSafe e The Product was not sold to you as new Additional Limitations on Warranty ioSafe s limited warranty does not cover Products which have been received improperly packaged altered or physically damaged Products will be inspected upon receipt You can view additional examples of the warranty limitations below by clicking on the available links P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 4 io
45. Safe Disaster Recovery Service Terms and Conditions As applicable during the warranty period and proper registering of an ioSafe product ioSafe will assist the original purchaser who has experienced a qualified disaster to restore the data that was stored on their ioSafe product by the following ways 1 ioSafe will provide phone or email based support to assist in recovering the data or 2 ioSafe will pay for the disaster exposed product to be shipped back to ioSafe headquarters for data recovery If data recovery is successful a replacement product will be loaded with the original data and shipped back to the original user or 3 if the data recovery by ioSafe is not successful ioSafe will pay up to the amount shown in the table below for the specific ioSafe product to a third party disk recovery service of ioSafe s choice to extract the data Any data extracted will be loaded on a replacement product and shipped back to the original user ioSafe has the right to use a factory refurbished product as the replacement product Product Line _ U S Dollars per disk ioSafe S2 ioSafe R4 5 000 ioSafe s good faith attempts to restore and recover the data in accordance with these terms and conditions shall be the purchaser s sole and exclusive remedy and ioSafe shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever ioSafe cannot guarantee that any data will be recoverable nor can it guarantee which data files are on the ioSafe product Data restora
46. UIDE IOSAFE R4 64 With a remote source you may need to enter a login and password to access the share If you are accessing a password protected share on a remote 1oSafe R4 server configured for Share security mode enter the name of the share name for login You should click on the Test Connection button to make sure you have proper access to the remote backup source before continuing gt STEP 2 SELECT BACKUP DESTINATION The Step 2 process is almost identical to Step 1 except that you are now specifying the backup destination If you had selected a remote backup source you will need to select a public or a private home share on the 1oSafe R4 either the source or destination must be local to the toSafe R4 If you selected an ioSafe R4 share for the source you can either enter another local toSafe R4 share for the destination or you can specify a remote backup destination STEP 2 Select backup destination Specify where you want your backup data saved As with the backup source the destination path can be a share on this device or a path on a remote PC or device Remote Windows NAS Timestamp Path 192 168 1 14 documentation Login admin Password ecccceee Test connection The remote backup destination can be a Windows PC ioSafe R4 system NFS server or a Rsync server Note that you can select Rsync for a remote ioSafe R4 if it is configured to serve data over Rsync gt STEP 3 CHOOSE BACKUP SCHEDULE Y
47. Write cache ON SMART OK Disk 2 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 46 C 114 F Write cache ON SMART OK Disk 3 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 42 C 107 F Write cache ON SMART OK Disk 4 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 41 C 105F Write cache ON SMART OK Fan 1 6250 RPM Recalibrate OK Fan 2 6250 RPM Recalibrate OK Fan 3 6490 RPM Recalibrate Power 1 5v 1 568 v Power 2 5v 2 544v Power 3 3v 3 344 v Power 5 0v 5 022 v Temp 1 51 C 123 F Normal 2 80 C 35 176 F Temp 2 44 0 C 111 F Normal 2 60 C 35 140 F UPS 1 APC Smart UPS 750 Battery charge 100 28 minutes ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS gt Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System Status Advanced Control Setup Wizard For disks you can click on the SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology button to display the content of the internal disk log P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 85 SMART Information for Disk 1 Model ST3750640NS Serial 5QD2PFX0 Firmware 3 AEG SMART Attribute Spin Up Time Start Stop Count Reallocated Sector Count Power On Hours Spin Retry Count Power Cycle Count Temperature Celsius Current Pending Sector Offline Uncorrectable UDMA CRC Error Count Multi Zone Error Rate TA Increase Count ATA Error Count ro tee ooooso so oo Extended Attribute Hot add events Hot remove events Lp stat events Power glitches Hard disk resets Retries Repaired sectors
48. _april 7_ord xls fjob_001 dataS Book1_april _bck xls gt Backup Book1_april7_bck xls job_001 dataS Booki_aprill4_iny xis gt Backup Book1_april14_iny xls ob_001 dataS Booki_aprili4_ord xls gt Backup Book1_april14_ord xls fob_001 dataS Book1_aprill4_bck xls gt Backup Book1_april14_bck xls fjob_001 dataS Book1_april21_iny xls gt Backup Book1_april21_iny xls ob_001 dataS Booki_april21_bck xls gt Backup Booki_april21_bck xls job_001 dataS Booki_april21i_ord xls gt Backup Book1_april21_ord xls fob_001 datasS Book3_JAN_ord xls gt Backup Book3_JAN_ord xls ob_001 dataS Booki_april28_bck xls gt Backup Book1_april28_bck xls j ob_001 dataS Book2_APR_iny xls gt Backup Book2_APR_iny xls ob_001 dataS Booki_april28_inv xls gt Backup Book1_april28_inv xls fjob_001 dataS Book1_april28_ord xls gt Backup Book1_april28_ord xls fjob_001 datasS Book2_FEB_invy xls gt Backup Book2_FEB_invy xls fjob_001 dataS Book3_A4PR_ord xls gt Backup Book3_A4PR_ord xls fjob_001 datasS Book2_JAN_inv xls gt Backup Book2_JAN_iny xls fob_001 dataS Book2_MAR_inv xls gt Backup Book2_MAR_inv xls ob_001 dataS Book3_FEB_ord xls gt Backup Book3_FEB_ord xls v The log format might differ depending on the backup source and destination that was selected but you can see when the job was started and finished and
49. a enforcement For instruction on how to access the shares click Help gt Backup Share Name Description Password gt Printers Used Quota MB CIFS NFS AFP HTTP S Rsync Delete amam D m gt System Brochures Marketing Brochures eveeee 0 1000 zy gt Status Te Drawings Engineering Drawings eceeee 0 2000 zy Finance Company Finance Jeveeee 0 Jo zy 042fo O E media Media Server Share g fiy a ny my L pL fi y ay Lay inl my Shares on USB Storage Devices Click on the access icon to customize the access control Place the mouse cursor over the icon to display the current access level in the status bar For instruction on how to access the shares click Help Share Name Description Password CIFS NFS AFP HTTP S Rsync fUSB_HDD_1 Ext Hard Disk zy zy Eil zy 4 Advanced Control Setup Wizard Note Although access authorization is based on user login in non Share mode files saved on the USB device regardless of the user account are with UID 0 This is to allow easy sharing of the USB device with other ioSafe R4 and PC systems P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 59 Printers The toSafe R4 device supports automatic recognition of USB printers If you have not already done so you can connect a printer now wait a few seconds and click Refresh to display detected printers The print share name will automatically
50. afe R4 so deactivating it when not needed may be advantageous in write intensive environments When a snapshot is taken snapshots of shares appear in your browse list alongside the original shares except the snapshot share names have snap appended to the original share names For example a snapshot taken of share backup will be available as backup snap P 192 168 77 71 Pije x 0 6 2 20 E Address 192 168 77 71 Network Tasks 2 Ge backup 4 backup snap G Add a network place View network connections ji l j l Set up a home or small media media snap office network lt 2 Setup a wireless network for a home or small office a4 gly View workgroup computers os Show icons for networked UPnP devices gt Other Places aa Workgroup i My Computer My Documents Shared Documents QA Printers and Faxes P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 45 You can traverse a snapshot share just as you would a normal share except that the snapshot share is read only If you wish you can select a detailed listing to show the snapshot time in the description field Snapshots can expire when the snapshot reserved space is filled The snapshot mechanism keeps track of data that has been changed from the original volume starting at the point when the snapshot is taken All these changes are kept in the snapshot reserved space on the volume If you look at the Disk space utilization information j
51. afe R4 powered by ReadyNAS gt Network A i User and group accounts are required for share access if the share is added without Manage groups z public access You can allow a user to belong to multiple groups by adding the user to Admin Password the Secondary Members list separated by commas or one user per line Security Mode User amp Group Accounts ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO POR sTU vwxyz All AddGroup gt Services Enter group accounts you wish to add NFS groups typically will want GIDs matching group accounts on gt Vol 5 z b e other servers otherwise leave the GID field blank A quota value of 0 disables disk quota enforcement gt Shares gt Backup Group Name GID Quota MB gt Printers finance gt System Status engr marketing general m Advanced Control Setup Wizard Thu Oct 23 11 53 41 2008 P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 25 After adding your groups you can view or change your groups by clicking on the alphabetical index tab or All to list all groups osit ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Admin Password Security Mode Security gt Network f f p User and group accounts are required for share access if the share is added without Manage groups x E public access You can allow a user to belong to multiple groups by adding the user to Admin Password the Secondary Members list separated by commas or one user per line Security Mode User
52. al Examples of acceptable formats are as follows note that you can omit follow on commas and fields if you wish to accept the system defaults for those fields or you can leave the fields empty flintstones In this example group flintstones will be created with an automatically assigned GID and default quota rubble 1007 5000 barney betty In this example group rubble will have GID 1007 quota of 5000 MB with members barney and betty P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 27 gt MANAGING USERS To manage user accounts select the Manage users option in the drop down box To add a user click on the Add User tab You can add up to five users at a time _ ioSafe Security Network gt Security gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System Status Admin Password Security Mode User and group accounts are required for share access if the share is added without public access You can assign a primary group for each user here and allow the user to belong to other groups in the Group Management page A quota value of 0 disables disk quota enforcement ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Tome I Refresh Bice Logout ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO POR STU vwxyz all _Add User Enter user accounts you wish to add Specify email address if you wish to inform users of their newly activated account quota warnings and quota violations A quota value of 0 disables disk qu
53. ame server 3 Domain name Advanced Control Setup Wizard Thu Oct 23 11 08 17 2008 gt HOSTNAME The Hostname you specify is used to advertise the ioSafe R4 on your network You can use the hostname to address the ioSafe R4 in place of the IP address when accessing the ioSafe R4 from Windows or over OS X using SMB This is also the name that will appear in the RAIDar scan list The default hostname is nas followed by the last three bytes of your primary MAC address gt DEFAULT GATEWAY The Default Gateway specifies the IP address of the system where your network traffic is routed to if the destination is outside of your subnet In most homes and smaller offices this is the IP address of the router connected to the cable modem or your DSL service If you had selected the DHCP option in the Ethernet tab the Default Gateway field will be automatically populated with the setting from your DHCP server If you had selected the Static option you can manually specify the IP addresses of the default gateway server here gt DNS The DNS box allows you to specify up to three Domain Name Service servers for host name resolution If you are unfamiliar with DNS the service translates host names into IP addresses P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 17 If you had selected the DHCP option in the Ethernet tab the domain name server fields will be automatically populated with the DNS settings from your DHCP server I
54. an contain Unicode characters if this option is specified in the Language tab Share Password Any character except for single quote Share passwords are limited to 8 characters SNMP Community Name must consist only of characters a z A Z 0 9 and the symbols _ underscore dash and period Name must start with a letter Name length must be 32 characters ot less User Group Name Name must consist only of characters a z A Z 0 9 and the symbols _ underscore dash and period Name cannot be an existing share name Name can contain Unicode characters if this option is specified in the Language tab User Password Any character except for single quote P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 111 CIES FTP HTTP HTTPS NES Quota RAID Share Snapshot Volume X RAID Appendix AppleTalk Filing Protocol is the standard way Mac OS 9 and earlier share files across the network Common Internet File System a standard protocol that Windows users use to share files across the network Mac OS X also has the capability to share files using CIFS File Transfer Protocol a common protocol adopted by many OS to enable remote file download and upload for public sharing Hypertext Transfer Protocol the protocol web browsers use to connect to web servers for file access typically web pages HTTP with SSL encryption is used wher
55. ange the admin user password The admin user is the only user that can access FrontView and this user has administrative privileges when accessing shares Be sure to set a password different from the default password and make sure this password is kept in a safe place Anyone who obtains this password can effectively change or erase the data on the toSafe R4 The default admin user password is tosafel fel ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe a elaleaeesieaen Security Mode Accounts Security Home ae To change the admin password you will need to additionally specify a password recovery question the Admin Password expected answer and an email address In case you forget the admin password you can reset the nwa password by answering the password recovery question correctly and specifying the email address where the new admin password will be sent There is no other way to recover a lost password User amp Group Accounts without setting the device back to factory default or reinstalling the firmware gt Services gt Volumes New admin password eccceccceee gt Shares gt Backup Retype admin password ZOTT Printers Password recovery question what s your nephew s middle name gt System Password recovery answer keenan gt Status r at J Password recovery email address mike abcd com Advanced Control Setup Wizard Thu Oct 23 11 35 41 2008 Note In User or Domain security mode you can use the a
56. arning This will delete all files and folders in the backup destination m Remove deleted files on backup target rsync only p After backup is complete change ownership of files in the backup destination to the share owner if the destination is a ReadyNAS share This will allow access to backed up files in Share security mode Warning Do not use this option if any files or directories should retain their current ownership Schedule full backup First select when you want full backups to be performed You can elect to do this just at the first time every week every two weeks every three weeks every four weeks or every time this backup job is invoked The first full backup is performed at the next scheduled occurrence of the backup depending on the schedule you specify and the next full backup 1s performed at the weekly interval you choose calculated from this first backup Incremental backup 1s performed between the full backup cycles Backups of Web or FIP site only have the option to do full backup every time Send backup log Backup logs can be sent to the users on the Alert contact list when the backup is complete It is a good idea to select this option to make sure files are backed up as expected You can elect to send only errors encountered during backup full backup logs consisting of file listing can be large or status and errors s atus refers to completion status Note Backup log e mails are restricted to approximat
57. can switch between X RAID and Flex X RAID modes The process involves setting the ioSafe R4 to factory default and using RAIDar to configure the volume during a 10 minute delay window during boot Please see Chapter 4 System Reset Switch for more information Snapshot The Volume page offers the ability to schedule and take snapshots You can visualize a snapshot as a frozen image of a volume at the time you take the snapshot Snapshots ate typically used for backups during which time the original volume can continue to operate normally As primary storage becomes larger offline backups tend to become increasingly difficult as backup time increases beyond offline hours Snapshots allow backups to occur without taking systems offline Snapshots also can be used as temporary backups as well perhaps as a means to backup data against viruses As an example if a file becomes infected with a virus on the NAS device the uninfected file can be restored from a prior snapshot taken before the attack gt TAKING AND SCHEDULING SNAPSHOT To take or schedule a snapshot click on the Snapshot tab Note The toSafe R4 ships with a snapshot reserved space of 0 GB In the tab you can specify how often a snapshot should be taken Snapshots can be scheduled in intervals from once every 4 hours to once a week P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 43 Specify the frequency and the days that you wish to schedule a snapshot A start and end time of
58. ckbox Disabling the job will not delete the job but rather take it out of the automatic scheduling If you wish to delete the job click the Delete button You can manually start the backup job by clicking Go You will see the status change as the backup is started encounters an error or is finished P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 67 Click View Logs to check a detailed status of the backup Click Clear Logs 2 to clear the current log detail Programming the Backup Button On ioSafe R4 systems you can program the backup button to execute one or more pre defined backup jobs Simply select the backup jobs in the order that you want them run and click Apply Pressing the Backup Button once will start the job s Backup Button Setup You can program the Backup button on the front of this device to execute one or more backup jobs that you have defined above The jobs will be executed in the order that you specify here when the Backup button is pressed 3 Run Order Job i ae v Viewing the Backup Log You can view the backup log while the job is in progress or after it has finished Backup Listing Edit Backup Job 001 Log for Job 001 Backup finished Mon 4ug 7 19 09 20 PDT 2006 Job 001 Protocol cifs Source 192 168 6 157 Competition datas Destination Backup fob_O001 dataS Book1_april7_inv xls gt Backup Book1_april7_inv xls fjob_001 dataS Book1_april _ord xls gt Backup Book1
59. dard Internet Printing Protocol IPP over HTTP Any client supporting IPP Printing IPP is available natively on the latest Windows Versions and OS X can now use this protocol to utilize printers connected to the ioSafe R4 The simplest way to utilize IPP Printing is to use Bonjour to discover and setup the print queue Bonjour is built into OS X and can be installed on Windows Bonjour for Windows is available for download from Apple s website at http www apple com macosx features bonjout Managing Print Queues From time to time printers may run out of ink paper or simply jam up forcing you to deal with the print jobs stuck in a queue The toSafe R4 has a built in print queue management to handle this Simply go to the USB Printers tab or click Refresh to display the printers and the jobs queued up for any stuck printers USB Printers The following USB printers are connected The printers appear as print shares to Windows and Mac users Alternatively if you have elected to advertise Printers over Bonjour in Discovery Services you can use Bonjour to discover and setup the printeris over IPP Internet Printing Protocol Queued print jobs will be displayed along with an option to delete the jobs Share Name Job Status User Size Time Delete Print Job Description CLP_500 samsung CLP 500 1 Active nobody Word 451584 O 2z Queued nobody bytes O 3 Queued nobody bytes O Click on the checkbox next to the print jobs and click
60. ddress as the WINS server This can be useful if you wish to browse by hostname across multiple subnets i e over VPN P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 DHCP The DHCP tab allows this device to act as a DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server DHCP service simplifies management of a network by dynamically assigning IP addresses to new clients on the network _ ioSafe Network Network Interfaces Globsl Settings WINS DHCP gt Security gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Home Ethernet Ethernet 2 Global Settings WINS DHCP Route DHCP or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol service provides a way for individual computers on the IP network to automatically obtain an IP address along with other network parameters to help reduce network administration V Enable DHCP service Starting IP Address 192 168 77 1 Ending IP Address 192 168 77 167 Lease Time min fis Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply Click on the Enable DHOP service checkbox if you want the ioSafe R4 device to act as a DHCP server This is convenient in networks where DHCP service is not already available Note These options are available only if this device is not already using a DHCP address Enabling DHCP service on a network already utilizing another DHCP server will result in conflicts If you wish t
61. dmin account to login to a Windows share and perform maintenance on any file or folder in that share The admin user also has permission to access all user private home shares to perform backups As a safeguard you will be requested to enter a password recovery question the expected answer and an email address If in the future you forget the password you can go to https 7p_address passwotd_ recovery Successfully answering the questions there will reset the admin password and that new password will be sent to the email address you enter in this tab P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 21 Security Mode Selection The ioSafe R4 device offers three security options for your network environment Read the quick overview below to help select the most appropriate option based on the required level of security and your current network authentication scheme ja ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSaf J Admin Password RESAS Aures Accounts p y y Security gt Network Select the Windows file security mode you wish to deploy This mode will be applied to other file services if possible Admin Password Security Mode Share Fit for home or small office Select this option if you would like to restrict share User amp Group Accounts access with the use of an optional share password Each user accesses the shares on the a device as a common guest user and will have the same read write privilege as other users Services T
62. e Advanced Control Setup Wizard P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 53 In this tab you can select the default access at the top and optionally specify the host s that you wish to allow restrict access to in the Share Access Restriction box Share Access Restriction For instance select read only for default access and list the hosts you wish to allow access to Access from all other hosts will be denied For example to allow only host 192 168 2 107 read only access to the share specify the following Default Read only Hosts allowed access 192 168 2 101 Multiple hosts can be separated with commas see Appendix B for more description of valid host formats For example if you wish to limit access to the share to particular hosts you can enter host IP addresses or valid DNS hostnames in the Host allowed access field In addition you can enter a range of hosts using common IP range expressions such as aE 2g E UOC O e as e e e P a o a 0774 The above designations all allow hosts with IP addresses 192 168 2 1 through 192 168 2 254 Towards the bottom of the Windows CIFS tab you ll notice the Share Display Recycle Bin and Opportunistic Locking options P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 54 gt SETTING SHARE ACCESS IN USER AND DOMAIN MODES In User or Domain modes the same tab would look as follows note the addition of read only and write enabled user and group fields
63. e Domain administrator login Domain administrator password Ifusing ADS DNS name of the ADS realm OU Organization Unit You can specify nested OU s by separating OU entries with commas The lowest level OU must be specified first A eae Oa ponad bu Rean ioSafe P iki Admin Password RESTAS Auce ES Accounts Security gt Network Domain Fit for department or corporate environment Select this option if you would like to 7 control access to shares based on user and group accounts and your Windows network Admin Password utilizes a centralized domain controller or active directory service ADS for login Security Mode authentication This option will not support disk quotas Do not select this option if you are User amp Group Accounts MS gt Services Volumes Domain APPLEJACK gt Shares Enter the name of the ADS realm i e mycompany local if you want this device to work in an Active Directory environment gt Printers CTT gt System gt Backup aiia You can choose to have the ReadyNAS create its machine account object in a different OU than the default Computers container eg TopLevelOU SecondLevelOU ReadyNASOU New object OU You can also choose to have the ReadyNAS restrict the accounts it will recognize to objects in a specific OU eg TopLevelOU SecondLevelOU ReadyNASOU Restrict Accounts to OU Domain Controller i Auto detect or specify IP address Domain Administ
64. e Setup Wizard mode Some of these options can be destructive so care should be taken in Services this mode If you are performing the setup for the first time it is highly recommended that you first follow gt Volumes the Setup Wizard to completion ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS gt Shares gt Backup eee Hostname nas 10 1A 17 gt Printers gt System gt Status Model R4 X RAID Serial 000da21013817 Firmware RAIDiator ioSafe 4 1 5 TO 1 00a146 Memory 512 MB 2 5 3 3 7 IP address 1 192 168 77 71 IP address 2 Not Connected Volume C Online X RAID 4 disks 0 of 2015 GB used Advanced Control Setup Wizard When you first switch to this mode you ll see the menus on the left that allow you to quickly jump to the desired menu page Towards the bottom left you ll notice buttons that allow you to switch back and forth between the Setup Wizard mode and the Advanced Control mode As you click on the menu buttons you ll notice a similar theme across all menu pages At the top right corner is the command bar which typically provides options to return to the home page refresh the browser window display help where available or to log out of the session Due to security reasons the Logout button only acts as a reminder to close the current browser session which is necessary to securely log out P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS At the furthest bottom is
65. e data on the ioSafe R4 Make sure not to press the reset switch for too long otherwise a destructive Factory Default process will be started instead see below To set the ioSafe R4 device to Factory Default use the same process except you must hold the System Reset Switch for 30 seconds after powering on the system You should see the disk LED s flash for a second time to signify that the command has been accepted Note that this process re installs the firmware and resets the disk configuration WIPING OUT ANY DATA you may have had on the NAS To change between X RAID and Flex RAID mode you will need to perform a Factory Default using the method described above Note that changing RAID modes will not preserve your data so make sure to perform a backup before doing this During the boot process during Factory Default there will be a 10 minute window where you can use RAIDat to select the desired volume setup RAIDar will display your toSafe R4 with Click P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 105 Setup in the Info column It may take a couple of minutes for RAIDar to display this At this point click the Setup button to enter the Volume Setup screen RAlDar Welcome to the ReadyNAS Volume Setup The ReadyNAS is currently not configured with a volume Please select From the options below to change the default settings and cick Create volume mow bo shart the initialization Select the desired volume seting Ex
66. e is being resized Note that this process will remove any existing snapshot shares Space reserved for snapshots 100 z GB Setup Wizard If you prefer you can manually take a snapshot just click on Take snapshot now P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 44 a ioSafe RA powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe j oe Volume C Volumes gt Network gt Security Disk space 129 MB 0 of 1917 GB used Services Additional 100 GB reserved for snapshots Volumes RAID Settings Snapshot gt Shares Snapshot schedule Assign a snapshot interval that fits the usage pattern for this volume Any change in the shares on this volume takes up space in the snapshot so choose an interval that fits your backup gt System requirement but make sure the snapshot space does not get depleted gt Status gt Backup gt Printers MV Take snapshot every 4 x hours between 00 00 and 23 00 D sun M Mon M Tue M Wed M The M fri D Sat lasting 2 z hours _Save Active snapshot 2008 Oct 24 09 19 Delete snapshot 0 00 of 100 GB used Next scheduled snapshot Friday 12 00 Advanced Control Setup Wizard You can also specify how long a snapshot should last If you will be using snapshots for backups you can schedule the snapshot to last slightly longer than the expected duration of the backup Having an active snapshot can affect the write performance to the ioS
67. e secure web access is desired Network File System a common way Unix and Linux systems share files by making remote file systems appear to reside locally Amount of volume space allocated to a particular user or group account ot to a particular share The uset group or share with a set quota cannot exceed disk usage beyond this limit Quota is typically specified to ensure no one user group or shate abuses the available storage space Acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks Basically it is a method of storing data on multiple disks in a way that if one disk fails data can still be accessed from the other disk s A RAID level selects how data will be kept redundant the most popular of which are levels 0 1 and 5 Contrary to the RAID acronym RAID level 0 does not provide any redundancy For mote info see RAID Levels Simplified in Appendix A A folder on a NAS volume that can be shared amongst different network file setvices such as CIFS for Windows AFP AppleTalk File Protocol for Macs NES for Unix Linux FTP and HTTP Access to the share can be customized on a uset group host level basis An instantaneous non changing read only image of a volume Snapshots are useful for backups during which time the original volume can continue to operate normally Snapshots can also be utilized as a temporary backup against viruses Files can be restored from the snapshot volume if current files are corrupted A filesystem built
68. e smallest disk in the RAID set multiplied by one less than the number of disks tn the RAID set For example a four disk RAID 5 set will provide the capacity of three disks assuming all four disks are identical in size P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 108 RAID Level X X RAID RAID level X or X RAID is similar to RAID level 5 is optimized for large sequential access for the best possible media streaming performance The X also refers to its natural volume eXpandability In X RAID mode with one disk the volume is non redundant and has the capacity of the single disk By adding a 2 disk the capacity remains the same but the data is now mirrored between the two disks With redundancy your data will not be lost in the event of a disk failure By adding a 3 disk the capacity doubles while maintaining redundancy By adding a 4 disk the capacity triples with redundancy The process of volume expansion is automatic When a disk has been added you will be notified of the steps being taken and you will be notified when you will need to reboot to continue with the expansion process P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 109 Appendix Domain Workgroup Name A valid domain or workgroup name must conform to the following restrictions Name must consist only of characters a z A Z 0 9 and the symbols _ underscore dash and period Name must start with a letter Name
69. e switch is used and client systems have jumbo frame capable network controllers you can enable this option Make sure the client network driver is set up for jumbo frame support Note The toSafe R4 supports a 7936 byte frame size so for optimal performance a switch capable of this frame size or larger should also be used Your ioSafe R4 device comes with multiple Ethernet interfaces you will see a separate configuration tab for each interface P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 16 Global Network Settings fa e s ioSafe Ethernet Ethernet 2 Kamilica WINS DHCP Route Network Home Logout Network Interfaces Global Settings WINS DHCP gt Security ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Hostname The hostname for this device can be used in place of the IP address when accessing this device over CIFS SMB This name will also be used in various alerts that this device will send out Hostname nas 10 1A 17 gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares Default Gateway gt Backup gt Printers i pram The default gateway specifies the IP address of the system router that network requests out of the aicina current subnet will get routed to gt Status Default gateway 192 168 77 1 DNS Settings DNS or Domain Name Service provides a means to translate hostnames to IP addresses Enter the DNS IP addresses here Domain name server 1 192 168 77 1 Domain name server 2 Domain n
70. eadyNAS Volume C Add Volume USB Volumes gt Network gt Security Disk space 542 MB 0 of 1337 GB used Services Additional 50 GB reserved for snapshots a Volumes Volume Settings RAID Settings Snapshot USB Storage gt Shares RAID Configuration gt Backup gt Printers j Configuration RAID Level 5 3 disks gt System siti Status Redundant gt Status RAID Disks Ch 1 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 696 GB allocated Ch 2 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 696 GB allocated Ch 3 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB 696 GB allocated Available Disks Ch 4 Seagate ST3750640NS 698 GB Advanced Control Setup Wizard Fri Oct 24 18 18 15 2008 We can also remove a disk from the volume by clicking on the Remove button The volume will still be available but in a non redundant state An additional disk failure would render this volume unusable Warning The Remove operation is a maintenance feature and is not recommended in a live environment Its function is equivalent to hot removing the disk or simulating a disk failure The Locate option is a way to verify that a disk is correctly situated in the expected disk slot Clicking on Locate will blink the LED of the disk for 15 seconds Volume Management for X RAID The X RAID technology offers a simplified approach to volume management X RAID works on the premise that what most people want to do with their data volume ove
71. ecific to rsync and need not be user accounts on the ReadyNAS Enable password protection Rsync user 1 Password Rsync user 2 Password Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply Hers is an example of a way for a Linux client to list the content of an ioSafe R4 rsync share with no user name and password defined rsync ipaddr backup To recursively copy the content of a share to tmp rsync a ipaddr backup tmp To do the same except with a login user and password hello rsync a user ipaddr backup tmp Passowrd Note The ioSafe R4 does not support rsync over SSH P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 99 Networked DVE Players and UPnP AV Media Adapters Networked DVD players and UPnP AV Media adapters will detect the toSafe R4 if the Home Media Streaming Server or the UPnP AV setvices are enabled The content of the Streaming Services media share on the toSafe R4 is available to these players for playback Please consult the player manual for information on the file formats that it supports Multiple players can be connected to the toSafe R4 and can play the media files concurrently Make sure that you enable the appropriate service in the Services tab before invoking this service UPnP AV enables playback of videos music and pictures from UPnP AV network media players Media share Media folder Automatically update database Update media files daily at 0
72. ely 10K lines To view the full backup log regardless of length select Status gt Logs and click the Download All Logs link Remove files from destination first Select if you want to erase the destination path contents before the backup 1s performed Be careful not to reverse your backup source and destination as doing so can delete your source files for good It is safer to not select this option unless your device is running low on space Do experiment with a test share to make sure you understand this option Remove deleted files on backup target for Rsync By default files deleted in the backup source will not get deleted in the backup destination With Rsync you have the option of simulating mzrrer mode by removing files in the backup destination deleted from the backup soutce since the last backup Select this option if you wish to do this Do experiment with a test share to make sure you understand this option P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 66 Change ownership of backup files The Backup Manager attempts to maintain original file ownership whenever possible however this may cause problems in Share security mode when backup files are accessed To work around this you have the option of automatically changing the ownership of the backed up files to match the ownership of the share This allows anyone who can access the backup share to have full access to the backed up files Before trusting that your backup job t
73. em Update if you wish to update to the System new image now Clock Name RAIDiator ioSafe Version 4 1 5 T0O Date Wed Sep 24 17 07 32 2008 Alerts Performance Language Update Size 60558848 Config Bad Description Final Power Shutdown ka Advanced Control Setup Wizard If you wish to continue click Perform System Update After the update image has been downloaded you will be asked to reboot the system The update process only updates the firmware image and does not modify your data volume However it is always a good idea to backup your important data whenever you perform an update P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 78 gt LOCAL UPDATE When the ioSafe R4 device is not connected to the Internet or Internet access is blocked you can download an update file from the Support site and upload that file to the 1oSafe R4 in the Local update tab i ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS J ioSafe Clock Alerts Performance Language iwees Config Backup Power Shutdown ES N Bren e gt Network Security Select the Remote option if this device is connected to the Internet Local option to upload an are update image from your system or Factory Default if you wish to destructively clear the device Fi ervices gt Volumes a Remote Local Settings Factory Default gt Backup gt Printers Select the firmware or Add on image Upload and verify image Sy
74. ere we ll select the first three disks and elect not to specify any of them as a hot spate Select RAID level RAID level determines how the redundancy capacity utilization and performance is implemented for the volume See Appendix A RAID Levels Simplified for more information Typically in a three or more disk configuration RAID level 5 is recommended In our example above we selected RAID level 5 for the three selected disks Specify reserve space for snapshot Next select the amount of the volume you wish to allocate for snapshots You can elect to specify 0 if you wish to disable snapshot capability or you can specify a 5GB increment from 5 to 100GB This represents the amount of data you feel would be changing while the snapshot is active This typically depends on how often you schedule your snapshot see following section on snapshot and the maximum amount of data plus padding you feel will change during that time Make sure to P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 39 allocate enough space for worse case as the snapshot becomes unusable when its reserved space runs out In our example above we selected 50GB of the volume to be reserved for snapshots Specify desired volume size After you ve specified the above volume parameters enter the desired volume size if you wish to configure a smaller volume size than the maximum displayed The resulting volume will be approximately the size that is specified
75. ers the options to override the default ownership and permission of the share folder on the embedded file system and to permeate these settings to all files and folders residing on the selected share The Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders option will perform a one time change Depending on the size of the share this can take awhile to finish You can also grant rename and delete privilege to non owners of the files option In a collaborative environment it may be desirable to enable this option In a more security conscious environment it may be desirable to disable this option P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 58 USB Shares USB storage devices are shared using the name of the device appended by the partition number The base device name can be changed in the Volumes USB tab if desired The ioSafe R4 attempts to remember the name as long as there s a unique ID associated with the USB device so that the next time the device is connected the same share name s will be available Share access restrictions are not saved across disconnects however j5 ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe Suai Add Shares P y y Shares gt Network gt Security Shares on RAID Volumes gt Services gt Volumes Shares Click on the access icon to customize the access control Place the mouse cursor over the icon to display the current access level in the status bar A quota value of 0 disables quot
76. f you had selected the Static option you can manually specify the IP addresses of the DNS servers and the domain name here WINS The WINS option allows you to specify the IP address of the WINS Windows Internet Naming Service server A WINS server is typically a Windows server on the network that will allow the ioSafe R4 or other devices on the network to be Windows browsed from other subnets _ ioSafe Network Network Interfaces Global Settings WINS DHCP gt Security gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Ethernet Ethernet 2 Global Settings RERE DHCP Route Specify a WINS Server WINS or Windows Internet Name Service enables clients on a different Windows subnet to browse this device If you wish to enable cross subnet browsing enter the IP address of the server providing WINS here WINS server Make this device a WINS Server This device can provide WINS service by enabling the option below Make sure that there are no other WINS server on the network before doing this This option is not available in Domain or Active Directory security modes I Become a WINS server Advanced Control Setup Wizard If you do not have an existing WINS server you can designate the toSafe R4 to be one Simply select the Become a WINS server checkbox and configure your Windows PC to specify the toSafe R4 IP a
77. firm this command P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 81 Power Management The ioSafe R4 offers a couple of power management options to reduce the system s power consumption while it is in use and when it is expected to not be in use gt DISK SPIN DOWN OPTION You can elect to spin down your ioSafe R4 disks after a specified time of inactivity The disks will spin up as needed fe ioSafe gt Network gt Security gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers System Advanced Control ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Clock Alerts Performance Language Update Config Backup Power Shutdown Disk Spin down Option You can elect to spin down your disks after a specified time of inactivity The disks will spin up automatically as needed Note that enabling disk spin down will disable journal mode in the Performance tab You will need to manually reset the journal mode if you disable this option A UPS is recommended if you enable this option M Enable disk spin down after 5 x minutes of inactivity Power Timer This device can power itself on and off automatically on a schedule Note that if you schedule this device to power off data transfers will be interrupted and pending backup jobs will not run Also note that some devices will not support scheduled power ON and you will not see this option in the Action list I Enable power timer Action
78. followed Corrosion or other contaminates may be present Moisture is present on inside of unit Physical Damage Moderate The R4 may have experienced a low impact event The exterior of the enclosure may have some minor dents or scratches The doors ate easily removable The electronic core and hard drives are in visibly pristine condition Extreme The R4 has experienced a high impact event The outside enclosure is visibly damaged the sides are no longer square the doors do not readily come off the electronic core or hard drives show evidence of damage 3 Tf there is evidence of damage to the R4 in step 2 evaluate the extent of damage If the damage is extreme proceed no further and contact ioSafe to arrange the next steps of the recovery effort If the damage is moderate with evidence of exposure to fire moisture or physical damage then remove all hard drives BE CAREFUL TO NOTE THEIR POSITION Inspect all surfaces and connectors of each drive 4 Clean the hard drive connectors with Isopropyl Alcohol P N 500 1051 1 00 5 Inspect the connectors again for dirt damage or moisture Repeat if required 6 Install the hard drives in the recovery core P N 700 10371 00 Make sure that the hard drives are installed in the same positions as in the original core 7 Connect the jumper cable P N 455 10372 00 to both DB 15 connectors on the rear the recovery core opposite side from the drive bays 8 Connect t
79. for a mote segregated monitoring scheme Next enter a host name or an IP address for Trap destination This is where all trap messages will be sent The following system events will generate a trap Abnormal power voltage Abnormal board enclosure temperature Fan failure UPS connected UPS detected power failure RAID disk sync started and finished RAID disk added removed and failure Snapshot invalidated If you wish to limit SNMP access to only a secure list of hosts specify the hosts in the Hosts allowed access field Click Apply to save your settings When you have saved the SNMP settings on the toSafe R4 you can import the 1oSafe SNMP MIB to your SNMP client application The ioSafe MIB can be from the toSafe Support site at http www iosafe com P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 72 gt SMTP The toSafe R4 system has a built in email message transfer agent MTA that is set up to send alert email messages from the device Some corporate environments however may have a firewall that blocks untrusted MTA s from sending out messages If you were unable to recetve the test message from the Alerts Settings tab it may have been blocked by the firewall In that case specify an appropriate SMTP server in this tab In the event of device or enclosure failure quota violation low disk space and other system events requiring attention email alerts will be sent Contacts Settings SNMP
80. from the ioSafe R4 UPnP AV provides media streaming service to stand alone networked home media adapters and networked DVD players that support the UPnP AV protocol or are Digital Living Network Alliance DLNA standard compliant The toSafe R4 comes with a reserved media share that is advertised and recognized by the players Simply copy your media files to the Videos Music and Pictures folders in that share to display them on your player If you wish you can specify a different media path where your files reside P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 Home Media Streaming Server provides streaming of videos music and pictures to popular networked DVD players The streaming players often utilize the streaming client developed by Syabas Similar to UPnP AV this service is used to stream videos music and pictures from the reserved media share to these adapters If you wish to change the location where the media files are stored you can specify a different share and folder path Note that this path 1s shared between the UPnP AV and this service Discovety Setvices fi ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe P ee Standard File Protocols Streaming Services feke Ma aeaee Installed Add ons Services gt Network gt Security Services Bonjour service allows Mac OS X and Windows clients running Bonjour to Standard File Protocols automatically detect services advertised by the ReadyNAS Streaming Services Di
81. g over CIFS Do not enable this option in multi user application environments such as Quickbooks where synchronized writes are necessary to keep files in syne The Enable fast USB disk writes option speeds up USB write access by accessing the USB device in asynchronous mode If you enable this option do not remove the USB device without properly unmounting it Failure to do so can compromise data integrity on the device gt ADDING A UPS FOR PERFORMANCE Adding a UPS to the NAS is an easy way to protect against power failures but as mentioned in the System Performance section a UPS can also safely allow for a more aggressive performance setting Simply connect the NAS power cable to the UPS and connect the UPS USB monitoring cable between the UPS and the NAS The UPS will be detected automatically and will show up in the Status bar You can move the mouse pointer over the UPS LED icon to display the current UPS information and battery life Note Alert notification and automatic system optimization is available only with a UPS that utilizes a USB monitoring interface You ate notified by email whenever the status of the UPS changes for example when a power failure forces the UPS to be in battery mode or when the battery is low When the battery is low the NAS device automatically shuts down safely Make sure to adjust the optimization settings in the Performance tab if you wish to take advantage of the available options P N 900
82. hare Cancel In Share security mode you will need to only specify user name and password if you have set up a password for your share Enter the share name in place of the user name In User or Domain security mode enter the user name and password you wish to connect to the ioSafe R4 as You should see the same file listing as you would in Windows Explorer P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 92 MAC OS 9 To access the same share under Mac OS 9 select Connect to Server from the Finder menu choose the NAS device entry from the AppleTalk selection and click Connect Connect to Server Choose a server from the list or enter a server address At fnas 00 10 40 BID AppleTalk 2 nas 00 10 40 Local Network afp at nas 00 10 40 litem Searching Address afp at nmas O00 10 40 f Addto Favorites Cancel Connect When you ate prompted to login enter the share name and password if the ioSafe R4 is configured for Share security mode or enter a valid user account and password otherwise and click Commect 3 Connect to the file server nas 00 10 40 as Guest Registered User Name backup Password f Options f Cancel Connect gt If no share password is set in Share mode you can select Guest user and leave the password field blank If your login is successful you will be given a listing of one or more shares Select the share
83. he CAT 6 network cable P N 455 10512 00 to either of the network cable connectors on the recovery core Connect the other end of the CAT 6 network cable into an available network 9 Install the spare R4 fan assembly P N 300 10337 00 into the recovery core Firmly slide the fan assembly into the fan bay until seated P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 103 10 Connect the AC power cable P N 455 10370 00 to the recovery core then connect the other end to AC power Be aware that the recovery core will immediately initiate boot when the power cable is connected 11 Verify LEDs are flashing during power up Verify 4 solid green lights indicate all 4 hard drives have booted Verify one solid blue light to indicate the core has properly booted Two flashing oreen lights may indicate drive activity and network activity 12 Using the RAIDar software installed on a computer on the network locate the recovery core and recover data 13 Contact an ioSafe disaster recovery team leader for help determining if the original R4 enclosure needs to be replaced If the original enclosure is viable affix the MAC address label P N 380 10521 00 to the back of the enclosure in place of the old MAC address label Verify that the MAC address label on the enclosure matches the MAC address label on the enclosed core 14 Order any replacement parts required for a complete R4 Disaster Recovery Kit P N 700 10501 00 Reference the R4 Disa
84. he share disk quota so carefully choose how you advertise a FTP Share To access the share in User or Domain security mode use the appropriate user login and password used to access the ioSafe R4 For better security you can use a FTPS FTP SSL client to connect to the ioSafe R4 FTP service With FTPS password and data is encrypted P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 98 Rsync Access to the share via rsync is identical regardless of the security mode If you had specified a user or password in the rsync share access tab you will need to specify this when accessing the rsync share Unlike other protocols rsync uses arbitrary user name and password that is specific only for rsync access The user account you specify does not need to exist on the 1oSafe R4 or a domain controller ii ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS ioSafe ij Ais ele eeise Add Shares Shares Home Logout gt Network cibitacahe Display Share List gt Services gt Volumes Shares CIFS AFP HTTP S Rsync Advanced Options Share Name backup Default Access Read write gt Backup gt Printers gt System Share Access Restrictions gt Status Share access for the file protocol can be restricted using the access list s below Separate entries with comma Hosts allowed access Rsync Password Option You can elect to set one or more login users and passwords for rsync access to this share The user names are sp
85. her Alert Settings heading you ll notice a couple additional options Selecting the Power off NAS when a disk fails or no longer responds option will gracefully power off the toSafe R4 in the event that a disk failure or a disk remove event is detected Selecting the Power off NAS when disk temperature exceeds safe level will gracefully power off the toSafe R4 when the disk temperature exceeds nominal range P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 71 gt SNMP If you utilize a SNMP management system such as HP OpenView or CA UniCenter to monitor devices on your network you can set up the ioSafe R4 device to work within this infrastructure In the event of device or enclosure failure quota violation low disk space and other system events requiring attention email alerts will be sent Contacts Settings SNMP SMTP SNMP or Simple Network Management Protocol is a standard protocol used to monitor network devices Enable SNMP service on this device only if you wish to allow third party SNMP client applications to monitor and be alerted of any abnormal condition on this device If you are unsure disable this service M Enable SNMP service Community public Trap destination 192 168 6 169 Separate entries Hosts allowed access 192 168 6 113 192 168 6 178 To set up SNMP service check the Enable SNMP service checkbox in the SNMP tab You can leave the Community name as public or specify a private name if you have opted
86. his option supports setting disk quotas on a per share basis gt Volumes Shares Workgroup WORKGROUP gt Backup gt Printers gt System yg ee User Fit for medium size office or workgroup Select this option if you would like to control m access to shares based on user or group accounts and your network does not utilize a domain controller for authentication If you select this option you will need to create a user account for anyone accessing this device This option supports setting disk quotas on a per user or per group basis Workgroup WORKGROUP Domain Fit for department or corporate environment Select this option if you would like to control access to shares based on user and group accounts and your Windows network utilizes a centralized domain controller or active directory service ADS for login authentication This option will not support disk quotas Do not select this option if you are UNSCUrA Advanced Control Setup Wizard Thu Oct 23 11 39 41 2008 The Share security mode is suitable for most home and small office environments providing a simple way for people in a trusted environment to share files without the necessity of setting up separate user and group accounts Shares that you create in this environment can be password protected if desired A more appropriate selection for the medium size office or workgroup environment is the User security mode This mode allows you to set up user and
87. hough you will need to power down several times to replace your old disks First power down the ioSafe R4 replace the first disk with the larger capacity disk and boot The toSafe R4 will detect that a new disk was put in place and will resyne the disk with data from the removed disk This process will take several hours depending on disk capacity The disk will be initialized and scanned for bad sectors first before the resync is started The total time from the start of initialization to the end of resync can be around 5 hours or mote depending on disk capacity You will be notified when this resync process is complete Upon completion power down replace the 2 disk with another larger capacity disk and boot The process will be the same as the 1 disk You will do this also for the 3 and 4 disk P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 42 Once you get the completion notification for the 4 disk reboot the ioSafe R4 During boot volume capacity is expanded with the additional capacity from each disk For instance if you had replaced four 250GB disks with four 600GB disks the capacity of the volume will increase by approximately 350GB x 3 the fourth disk is reserved for parity The expansion process will take several hours depending on the capacity expanded and you will be notified by email when the process is complete There is no access to the ioSafe R4 during this time Changing Between X RAID and Flex RAID Modes You
88. ice that the user can use to keep private data such as backups of the user s PC This home share is accessible only by that uset and the administrator who needs the privilege to perform backups of these private shares The option to automatically generate the private home share is controlled in the Accounts Preferences tab and you can disable it if you wish P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 23 Note Private user shares are only accessible by users using CIFS Windows or AppleTalk file protocols To set up the 1oSafe R4 for this security mode you will need the following information Workgroup name Group names you wish to create i e Marketing Sales Engineering User names you wish to create plus email addresses if you will be setting disk quotas Amount of disk space you would like to allocate to users and groups optional gt SPECIFY A WORKGROUP To change or set a workgroup name enter the desired name in the Workgroup field in the User option box The name can be the workgroup name that is already used on your Windows network User Fit for medium size office or workgroup Select this option if you would like to control access to shares based on user or group accounts and your network does not utilize a domain controller for authentication If you select this option you will need to create a user account for anyone accessing this device This option supports setting disk quotas on a per user or per gr
89. ine tune share access in the Share List tab This tab has two looks one for Share security mode and one for User and Domain mode They te both similar except for the password and disk quota prompts which only appear in Share mode P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 51 ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Jda Add Shares Shares gt Network gt Securi ty Shares on RAID Volumes gt Services gt Volumes Shares Click on the access icon to customize the access control Place the mouse cursor over the icon to display the current access level in the status bar A quota value of 0 disables quota enforcement For instruction on how to access the shares click Help gt Backup ere Share Name Description Password Used Quota MB CIFS AFP HTTP S Delete 2 Syam Brochures Marketing Brochures veces o 1000 r gt Status Finance Company Finance eeeeee oo backup Backup Share t0142efo media Media Server Share ofo ont a oe g oe Shares on USB Storage Devices No USB shares exist Plug in a USB storage device and click Refresh to display a USB share Advanced Control Setup Wizard If you want to delete a share click on the checkbox to the far right of the share listing and click Delete You have the option of deleting up to five shares at a time The columns to the left of the Delete checkbox represent the services that are currently enabled and the access
90. ing Japanese allows sharing of files with Japanese names in Windows Explorer d backup on Dependable 192 168 6 128 File Edit view Favorites Tools Help Back B P Search Folders h XxX 1 Address E2 192 168 6 128 backup SEE a ayez ti Ypi xoy i b W AFF a hh Ny REET S a Microsoft Word Document 28 KB SHO A ARH Adobe Acrobat Document 901 KB SVG Document 67 KB 7 objects Internet P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 It is best to select the appropriate language based on the region that this device will operate in Note This option does not set the web browser language display browser settings must be done using the browser language option Unicode for User Group and Share Names If desired you can elect to enable use of Unicode for user group and share names allowing for greater flexibility in non English speaking regions This option once selected cannot be reversed Note HTTP and WebDAV access will not work with Unicode user names Other restrictions may exist Enable Character encoding conversion for FTP clients If your FTP client uses different character encoding from the NAS character encoding specified in Unicode the NAS FTP server will convert to it if this option is selected Updating ioSafe R4 The toSafe R4 device offers the option of upgrading the operating firmware either automatically using the Remote Update option
91. ity mode Warning Do not use this option if any files or directories should retain their current ownership Advanced Control Setup Wizard gt STEP 1 SELECT BACKUP SOURCE The backup source can be located remotely or it can be a public a private home share or all home shares on the ioSafe R4 A USB device will appear as a share so if you want to backup a USB device select on a share name starting with USB If you want to backup data from a remote source you will need to select from one of the following Windows NAS Timestamp select this if you wish to backup a share from a Windows PC or another ioSafe R4 device Incremental backups use timestamps to determine whether files should be backed up P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 63 Windows NAS Archive Bit select this if you wish to backup a share from a Windows PC Incremental backups use the archive bit of files similar to Windows to determine whether they should be backed up Website select thi if you wish to back up a website or a website directory The backed up files include files in the default index file and all associated files as well as all index file links to web page image files FTP site select this if you wish to back up an FTP site or a path from that site NFS server select this option if you wish to back up from a Linux Unix server across NFS Mac OS X users can also use this option by setting up a N
92. k of data corruption in case of a power failure so a UPS gt Shares is highly recommended gt Volumes gt Backup gust anes f __ Disable full data journaling Full data journaling makes a backup of data before writing System the data out to the intended location providing an extra level of data protection needed to prevent data corruption for RAID volumes at the expense of disk write performance Disable journaling Journaling allows very quick file system check in the event of unintended shutdowns such as a power failure Write performance with journaling enabled is slightly slower than without Optimize for OS X Enable this option for best performance in Mac OS X environments when accessing the ReadyNAS over SMB CIFS This option introduces compatibility issues with Windows NT so disable this option if this device will be accessed by Windows NT clients 5 Enable fast CIFS writes This option allows for optimal write performance by enabling aggressive write back caching for CIFS transactions Do not enable this option if shares on this device will be used by multi user applications i e Quickbooks where synchronized writes are necessary to keep files in sync Enable fast USB disk writes This option speeds up USB write access by accessing the USB device in asynchronous mode If you enable this option do not remove the USB device without properly unmounting it Failure to do so can compromise data integrity on the device
93. lows Group mghts are permiscion for members of the folder owner s group Everyone refers bo all other wees not mi thee folder owner s group Group rights oooahernte F Everyone nights Re sd arke Opportunistic Locking Opptur locking oplocks tan enhance CIPS performance by allowing hes residing on thes ReadyHAS bo be cached locally on the Windows chent chounating network latency when hies are repeated accessed F Enable oplocks for this share Advanced Control Setup Wizard Thu Get 23 15 55 21 7008 a Share Access Restriction If you wish to limit share access to particular users and or groups you can enter their names in the Read only users Read only groups Write enabled users and Write enabled group fields The names must be valid accounts either on the ioSafe R4 or on the domain controller For instance if you wish to allow read only access to all and read write access only user fred and group engr you would set the following Default Read only Write enabled users fred Write enabled groups engr If you wish to limit the above access only to hosts 192 168 2 101 and 192 168 2 102 set the following Default Read only Hosts allowed access 192 168 2 101 192 168 2 102 Write enabled users fred Write enabled groups engr If you wish to specify some users and groups for read only access and some for read write access and disallow all other users and groups enter the following Defaul
94. n transparently force access to http iosafe_ip to http 7osafe_jp share This is useful if you do not want to expose your share listing to outsiders as well as allowing you to redirect all default web access to a share dedicated to be your website All you need in the target share is an index file such as index htm or index html You have the option of enabling or disabling login authentication to this share HTTPS HTIP with SSL encryption This service is enabled by default and cannot be disabled Access to FrontView is strictly through HTTPS for this reason If you want remote web access to FrontView or your HTTPS shares you have the option of specifying a non standard port that you can forward on your router for better security You can also regenerate the SSL key based on the hostname or IP address that users will address the ioSafe R4 This allows you to bypass the default dummy certificate warnings whenever you access the ioSafe R4 over HTTPS Rsync An extremely popular and efficient form of incremental backup made popular in the Linux platform but is now available for various other Unix systems as well as Windows and Mac Enabling rsync service on the toSafe R4 will allow clients to use rsync to initiate backups to and from the ioSafe R4 Streaming Services The built in streaming services on the 1oSafe R4 allow you to stream multi media content directly from the toSafe R4 without the need to have your PC or Mac powered on
95. n upload a CSV Comma Separated Value formatted file containing the user account information The format of the file is namel password1 groupl emaill uidl quotal name2 password2 group2 email2 uid2 quota2 name3 password3 group3 email3 uid3 quota3 Please note the following Spaces around commas are ignored The name and password fields are required Ifa listed group account does not exist it will be automatically created Group and quota will be set to the defaults if not specified Email notification will not be sent to the user if the field is ommitted or left blank UID will be automatically generated if not specified Empty fields are replaced with accounts defaults Examples of acceptable formats are as follows note that you can ommit follow on commas and fields if you wish to accept the system defaults for those fields or you can leave the fields empty fred hellol23 In this example user fred will have password set to e lo123 belongs to the default group no email notification automatic UID assigned and default quota barney 23stone barney bedrock com P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 In this example user barney will have password set to 23 stone belongs to the default group will be sent email notification to barney bedrock com automatic UID assigned and default quota wilma imhiswif ourgroup wilma bedrock com 225 50 In this example user wilma will
96. o a schedule it is always a good idea to manually perform the backup to make sure access to the remote backup soutce or destination is granted and the backup job can be done within the backup frequency you selected You can do this after clicking Apply to save the backup job Viewing the Backup Schedule After saving the backup job a new job appears in the Backup Schedule section of the Backup Jobs screen ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Home Mogot scaig Add a New Backup Job gt Network gt Security Services Backup Schedule gt Volumes Shares The following backup jobs are currently scheduled Backup Enable Job Source When Status Logs Destination yE V 001 backup Weekdays oO D D a 1192 168 1 4 documentation Every 24 hr Ready gt i gt System between 00 23 Go Delete gt Status Backup Button Setup You can program the Backup button on the front of this device to execute one or more backup jobs that you have defined above The jobs will be executed in the order that you specify here when the Backup button is pressed DD Run Order Job i None z Advanced Control Setup Wizard Fri Oct 24 11 53 50 2008 Here you will see a summary of the backup jobs that have been scheduled Jobs are numbered starting from 001 You can modify the backup job by clicking the Job number button If you wish you can enable or disable the job scheduling by clicking on the Enable che
97. o pA ioSafe disaster proof hardware ioSafe R4 Disaster proof NAS RAID User s Guide ioSafe R4 N 900 10004 00 REV 02 CONGRATULATIONS This product represents the latest in disaster proof computer equipment This system has the following disaster proof specifications 1 Fire proof data storage to 1700 F 1 hr duration per UL72 2 Waterproof data storage to 30 depth 30 days in fresh water or salt water IMPORTANT NOTE DISASTER RECOVERY Please refer to the website for the latest disaster recovery procedures and product warranties While no device can protect against every disaster this 1oSafe R4 system has been tested to protect data against fires floods and building collapse More information is available and updated online at our website www tosafe com Please see the website or details in this manual for the terms and conditions of our Disaster Recovery Service If you have a disaster please contact the ioSafe Disaster Response Team at 1 888 984 6723 x430 for assistance in recovery of your toSafe unit Due to the unique nature of individual disasters different recovery strategies may have to be employed depending on your particular circumstances Let the experts at ioSafe assist with recovery Some general rules regarding recovery are as follows 1 Don t attempt to recover the ioSafe R4 unit by yourself The lack of our expert support might lead to irretrievable data loss Let our disaster support enginee
98. o use this device as a DHCP server make sure to specify static addresses in the Ethernet and DNS tabs P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 Route The Route tab is available if you have two or more network interfaces Ethernet or Wireless combined on your ioSafe R4 In some environments you can optimize your network traffic by manually setting up a routing table fa oO ioSafe Ethernet Ethernet 2 Global Settings WINS DHCP toute Network Home Logout Network Interfaces With multiple network interfaces network traffic can be optimized by manually setting up a routing table If Global Settings you are unfamiliar with route tables it is advised that you do not change the defaults ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS WINS Network Netmask Gateway Interface DHCP Security lt amp z_ lt Z lt eS a E amp _ lt lt X lt amp amp aE E lt XZ t gt Services Volumes fioz fies fo ass fass fo jo oz fies j7 Ethernet E MA gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status Advanced Control Setup Wizard Route table management is beyond the scope of this manual and this option is provided only for advanced users who understand routing and wish to deviate from the default routes P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 20 Security Admin Password The Admin Password tab allows you to ch
99. on top of a RAID set This filesystem consists of shares that are made available through various network file services NETGEAR patent pending Expandable RAID technology P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 112 Appendix If you have questions or you encounter problems with the setup you can visit our support site at http www iosafe com There you ll find links to FAQs ioSafe support and engineering staff can be reached at Phone 1 888 98 IOSAFE 984 6723 x400 Phone 530 886 1578 x400 Fax 888 FAX IOSAFE Email customersetrvice iosafe com P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 113
100. or liquid and electricity can create significant risk of bodily harm Take care to ensure that your disaster recovery effort is only performed in safe working conditions 1 The first step in recovering data from your 1oSafe product is to contact a ioSafe disaster response team leader 888 984 6723 x430 2 Inspect the R4 for physical damage Remove all cables and inspect the receptacles Remove the front and back doors and inspect the inside of the unit See below for descriptions of what indicates damage to the R4 If there is no evidence of damage to the R4 plug the cables back in power up the unit and verify proper boot and the presence of your data During normal boot the blue LED will blink and then show steady on P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 102 Fire Damage Moderate Deformation of plastic parts due to heat Minor areas of discoloration or paint damage Doots easy to remove Extreme Extensive paint damage plastic parts are completely melted or gone structural components appear visibly warped or compromised Doors are difficult to remove Water moisture exposure Moderate Exposure to moisture or liquid for a short period of time due to splash spray or flood The R4 has minimal moisture present and no corrosion on the connectors No moisture present on inside of unit Extreme R4 has been exposed to extended moisture due to submersion or splash spray without prompt recovery procedures being
101. ota enforcement You can leave the UID field blank unless the user intends to access this device via NFS NFS users typically will want UIDs matching their accounts on other servers Email UID Primary Group uses E users E uses E uses users Password a Manage users z Quota MB Advanced Control Setup Wizard You can enter a user name email address user ID select a group password and disk quota for the user Only the user name and password fields are required however you should specify the user email address if you intend to set up disk quotas Without an email address the user will not be warned when disk usage approaches the specified disk quota limit If you do not wish to assign a disk quota enter 0 If you wish to add a large number of users select Import user list from the selection box P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 28 Security gt Network gt Security gt Services gt Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System Status ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Admin Password Security Mode Eeee You can upload a CSV Comma delimited formatted file to simplify adding a list of Import user list users Click Help for format specification and examples OO Advanced Control Setup Wizard Thu Oct 23 12 12 41 2008 Here you ca
102. ou can select a backup schedule as frequently as once every four hours every day to just once a week The backup schedule is offset by 5 minutes from the hour to allow you to schedule snapshots on the hour snapshots are almost instantaneous and perform backups on those snapshots STEP 3 Choose backup schedule Select when you want the backup performed MV Perform backup every 24 hours between 00 05 x and 23 05 x DC Sun M Mon M Tue M Wed M Thu M Fri D Sat Select All Days If you wish you can elect not to schedule the backup job so that you can invoke it manually instead by not selecting the Perform backup every check box You may want to do this if you will be starting the backup from the Backup Button on ioSafe R4 system gt STEP 4 CHOOSE BACKUP OPTIONS In this last step select how you would like backups to be performed P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 65 STEP 4 Choose backup options Select the desired options when backup is performed A full backup will copy all data from the backup source Incremental backup where only changed data are copied occurs between scheduled full backups unless Every time is selected Schedule full backup First time On backup completion send errors only to the alert email address m Remove the contents of the backup destination before a full backup is performed This will clean the backup destination of files which were removed in the backup source W
103. oup basis Workgroup WORKGROUP gt SETTING UP ACCOUNTS In this security mode the Accounts tab allows you to manage user and group accounts on the 1oSafe R4 A good starting point would be to select the Manage groups option from the drop down box in the upper tight corner P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 24 gt MANAGING GROUPS To add a new group click on the Add Group tab if it is not already selected You can add up to five groups at a time If you expect to have just one big set of users for one group you can forego adding a new group and accept the default users group If desired a user can belong to multiple groups Once you have created user accounts you can specify secondary groups that the user can belong to This allows for finer grain settings for share access For instance you can have user joe in group marketing also belong to group sales so joe can access shares restricted to only marketing and sales groups While adding a new group you can specify the amount of disk space you wish to allocate that group by setting a disk quota A value of 0 denotes no limit You can set or change the quota at a later time You can also set the Group ID or GID of the group that you are adding You can leave this field blank and let the system automatically assign this value unless you wish to match your GID to yout NFS clients a H s ioSafe Admin Password Security Mode ENEs inie Security Logout ioS
104. ows share options tab will look as follows _ ioSafe gt Network gt Security gt Services gt Volumes Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS SW A Add Shares Display Share List CIFS AFP HTTP S Advanced Options Share Name backup Default Access Read write Share Access Restrictions Share access for the file protocol can be restricted using the access list s below Separate entries with comma Hosts allowed access Share Display Option You can elect to hide this share from browsing by selecting the option below If enabled users will not see the share unless they explicitly specify the share name in the browse path Please note that enabling this option will disable access to the share from other file protocols I Hide this share when a user browses the ReadyNAS for available shares Recycle Bin When enabled deleted files from this share will be dumped in the Recycle Bin folder in the root of the share where it will be kept up to the number of days and capacity specified I Enable Recycle Bin Remove files older than fio days Limit Recycle Bin to 200 MB Opportunistic Locking Opportunistic locking oplocks can enhance CIFS performance by allowing files residing on this ReadyNAS to be cached locally on the Windows client eliminating network latency when files are repeatedly accessed M Enable oplocks for this shar
105. owser To access the same share using a web browser enter http zpaddr in the browser address bar You can use https if you want a secure encrypted connection You will be prompted to login Connect to 197 168 168 168 i Control Panel User name Password Enter the share name and share password if the ioSafe R4 is in Share security mode Otherwise login with a valid user and password if the toSafe R4 is in User or Domain mode ReadyNAS R4 Jiu Password My Shares The following shares are accessible using this browser Click on the icon to access the share backup Backup Share P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 96 If the share access is read only the file manager will only display F Index of backup Microsoft Internet Explorer E File Edt Wew Faites Teos Hep Address htips 192 158 2 o2backup Index of backup i Last modified Size Description Faren irectory 05 Jan 2003 01 56 Entertainment Center PSD 11 Oct 2001 12 09 Exterior Paint doc 10 0ct 2001 09 4 27 Nov 1998 20 12 0ct 2001 23 5 06 Jan 2002 13 05 Window Bench doc CE op a a em a a Cm A Apache 3 26 Ben SSL 148 Server at 192 168 2102 Port 443 If the share is also writable the file manager will have options for creating modifying and deleting files as follows F backup nas 00 10 40 192 168 2 105 File Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer fee Gat Yew Favoites Joos elo Agoress A
106. pandable Volume XRAID Your volume wil be configured using X RAID which provides the most Plesbility for Flexible Volume Flex R AID Your volume will be automatically configured using standard RAID 0 1 or 5 depending on the number of dicks Select i you want to reserve space for snapshots You can visualize a snapshot as a frozen image of a volume at the bine you take the snapshot Snapshots ane typically used for backups during which time the original volume can continue bo operate normaly za Select the desired snapshot reserved space hg s GB Select the desired mode along with the desired snapshot size and click Create volume now The ioSafe R4 will proceed with a reboot to re configure your volume to the desired specification If no action is taken within 10 minutes the system defaults to X RAID and begins its initialization process Before beginning any of these activities make sure to back up all important data P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 106 Chapter Changing User Passwords There are two ways in which user passwords can be changed in the User security mode The first way is for the admin user to change the passwords in the Accounts tab in the Security menu The other and preferred way is to allow users to change their own passwords This relieves the admin from this task and hopefully encourages users to change their passwords on a more regular basis for enhanced security Users can use the
107. r time is either adding redundancy or expanding it without the headaches usually associated with doing that By using simple rules X RAID is able to hide all the complexities yet provide volume management features only previously available in enterprise level storage solutions gt X RAID REDUNDANCY OVERHEAD To maintain redundancy from disk failure X RAID requires a one disk overhead In a two disk X RAID volume the usable capacity is one disk In a three disk X RAID volume the usable capacity is two disks In a four disk X RAID volume the usable capacity is three disks P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 41 gt X RAID HAS ONE DATA VOLUME X RAID devices only have one data volume This volume encompasses one to four disks utilizing the capacity of the smallest disk from each disk For instance if you had one 80GB disk and two 250GB disks only 80GB from each disk will be used in the volume The leftover space on the 250GB disks will be reclaimed only when the 80GB disk is replaced with a 250GB or greater capacity disk See Replacing All Your Disks for Even More Capacity below gt ADDING A 2 DISK FOR REDUNDANCY A one disk X RAID device has no redundancy and provides no protection from a disk failure However if and when you feel the need for redundancy simply power down the device add a new disk with at least the capacity of the first disk and power on Depending on the size of the disk within a few hours
108. rator Administrator Password ececcceceee Jv Display users from trusted domains In environments with a large number of users selecting this option will slow down configuration pages i Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply You can elect to have the ioSafe R4 automatically auto detect the domain controller or you can specify the IP address Sometimes auto detect will fail and you will need to supply the IP address of the domain controller to join the domain P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 31 If you have a large number of users in your domain you may need to deselect the Display users from trusted domains checkbox Otherwise FrontView management system may slow down to an unusable state Note Use of the ioSafe R4 in a domain environment with more than 1000 users is not recommended at this time Click Apply to join the domain If successful users and groups from the domain will have login access to the shares on this device gt SETTING UP ACCOUNTS Accounts ate managed on the domain controller The ioSafe R4 simply pulls the account information from the controller and displays them in the Accounts tab if you have the Display users from trusted domains option enabled If you wish you can assign a disk quota to the domain users and groups If email addresses are specified users will be automatically notified when approaching and reaching their quotas P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE
109. reflect the manufacturer and model of your printer and will list in the USB Printers tab gt Network gt Security gt Services USB Printers gt Volumes gt Shares The following USB printers are connected The printers appear as print shares to Windows and Mac users aT Alternatively if you have elected to advertise Printers over Bonjour in Discovery Services you can use Bonjour i p to discover and setup the printer s over IPP Internet Printing Protocol Queued print jobs will be displayed Printers along with an option to delete the job s Printer Queue Service Share Name Status Description CLP_500 gt System gt Status Samsung CLP 500 No print jobs queued Print Shares over CIFS SMB The ioSafe R4 can act as a print server for up to two USB printers for your Windows or Mac clients For example to setup a printer under Windows click Browse in RAIDar or simply enter hostname in the Windows Explorer address bar to list all data and printer shares on the ioSafe R4 P 192 168 6 128 File Edit Yiew Favorites Tools Help a Back 9 C Search Folders jy E gt D 2 E e X 19 Address WB 192 168 6 128 vi Go Links Gan L NA A GI admin Sa Samsung_CLP 500 R Printers and Faxes P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 60 Double click the printer icon to assign a Windows driver IPP Printing The ioSafe R4 also supports the IETF stan
110. rs help recover your critical data 2 Turn off the power 3 Do not restart the ioSafe R4 after a disaster without first consulting with an toSafe disaster support person first 4 Do not try to reconfigure or re initialize the RAID array Copyright 2008 ioSafe Inc All rights reserved http www tosafe com ioSafe is a trademark or registered trademark of ioSafe Inc ReadyNAS X RAID FrontView RAIDar RAIDiator Network Storage Processor and NSP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Infrant Technologies Inc All other product names are the property of their respective owner P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 2 Appendix A Limited Warranty Statement Warranty Services End User Limited Product Warranty ioSafe Incorporated ioSafe values your business and always attempts to provide you the very best data protection and recovery services No limited warranty is provided by ioSafe unless you are the original customer of the product ioSafe s warranty is non transferable No limited warrant is provided unless your ioSafe product Product was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service No warranty service is provided unless the Product is returned ioSafe Warranty Policy ioSafe warrants to the end user customer subject to limitation
111. s and the file system is properly closed The Disconnect option unmounts all partitions on the device Once disconnected physically remove and re connect to the 1oSafe R4 to regain access to the USB device In cases where you attach multiple storage devices and wish to determine which device corresponds to the device listing the Locate command will blink the device LED if present This option formats the device as a FAT32 file system FAT32 format is easily recognizable by most newer Windows Linux and Unix operating systems This option formats the device as an EXT3 file system Select this option if you will be accessing the USB device mainly from Linux systems or ioSafe R4 devices The advantage of EXT3 over FAT32 is that file ownership and mode information P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 48 can be retained using this format whereas this capability is not there with FAT32 Although not natively present in the base operating system Ext3 support for Windows and OS X can be added The installation images can be downloaded from the web When the USB device is unmounted you have the option of renaming it The next time the same device is connected it will use the new name rather than the default USB _FLASH_ or USB_HDD_ naming scheme The USB storage shares are listed in the Share menu and access restrictions can be specified there The share names will reflect the USB device names USB Flash Device Option Towards
112. s list below that the warranted hardware components listed below shall be free from defects in material or workmanship and will conform to ioSafe s specification for the particular Product for the applicable warranty period ioSafe further warrants that for the applicable warrant period shown below and starting from the date of purchase the media on which any software included in the hardware components is furnished will be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use Except for the foregoing such software is provided AS IS During the applicable warranty period ioSafe will repair or replace at ioSafe s option any warranted hardware part which does not comply with this warranty with a new or functionally equivalent replacement part provided the defective part is returned to ioSafe as described in the Returned Materials Authorization RMA section detailed below Warranted Product Warranty Period ioSafe S2 3 Years Optional 5 Years ioSafe R4 3 Years Optional 5 Years Note The limited warranty extends only for the period of time set forth above The period commences from the date of purchase of the original Product To verify the warranty of your Product please maintain the receipt of the original Purchase In the United States some states do not allow limitations on how long implied warranties last so the above limitation may not apply to you THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES WHICH EXTEND BEYOND THE FACE OF THE IOSAF
113. scovery Services Installed Add ons j Advertise FrontView over Bonjour j Advertise printers over Bonjour Volumes j Advertise AFP service over Bonjour gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status UPnP allows other UPnP enabled devices on the network to automatically detect the ReadyNAS Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply Thu Oct 23 13 57 42 2008 Bonjour Service provides a simple way of discovering various services on the ioSafe R4 Bonjour currently provides an easy way to connect to FrontView IPP Printing and AFP services OS X has built in Bonjour support and you can download Bonjour for Windows from Apple s website UPnP provides a means for UPnP enabled clients to discover the toSafe R4 on your LAN P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 36 Volumes Volume Management The ioSafe R4 consists of two RAID volume technologies Flex RAID utilizing the industry standard RAID levels 0 1 and 5 and X RAID NETGEAR patented expandable RAID technology Your system defaults to X RAID however you can switch between the two modes through a factory default reset process described in Chapter 4 System Reset Switch There are advantages to both technologies gt ADVANTAGES OF FLEX RAID 1 The default volume can be deleted and recreated with or without the snapshot reserved space 2 Hot spare disk is supported 3 Full volume management is available
114. stem Clock Alerts Performance Language Update Power Shutdown Advanced Control Setup Wizard Click on the Browse button to select the update file and click the Upload and verify image button The process will take several minutes at which time can click the Perform System Update button You will be requested to reboot the system to proceed with the upgrade DO NOT click on the browser Refresh button during the update process Wiehe Inberaert Fepkener Remote Local Settings Factory Default The firmware update or Add on image file is valid but is not newer than the installed image Click Perform System Update if you wish to proceed with the update anyway Name RAIDiator ioSafe Perform System Update Version 4 1 5 T0 Date Wed Sep 24 17 07 32 2008 Size 60558848 Description Final P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 79 gt SETTINGS If you do have reliable Internet connection you can enable the automatic update check and download options in the Settings tab Select the Remote option if this device is connected to the Internet Local option to upload an update image from your system or Factory Default if you wish to destructively clear the device Remote Local Factory Default Configure the automatic update settings I Automatically check for updates F Download updates automatically If you enable the Automatically check for updates option the ioSafe R4
115. ster Recovery Bill of Materials P N 380 10520 00 for a complete list of parts P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 104 Chapter h fl gt i Eg 4 Pm a 1G to mY 1 T A A ve aS a Nast 3 om B be Ss E n F The System Reset switch on the front of the ioSafe R4 next to the power button The System Reset switch allows you to perform three functions 1 re install the ioSafe R4 firmware 2 reset the ioSafe R4 back to the factory default settings and 3 change between X RAID and Flex RAID mode Typically you should not need to resort to options 1 and 2 unless you have exhausted all other means of recovering your system You may want to re install the ioSafe R4 firmware as a first step if the ioSafe R4 had been working normally but a configuration change makes it inaccessible If this does not work and or you wish to set the ioSafe R4 back to a factory default state you can do so following the instructions below To re install the ioSafe R4 firmware use a paper clip to depress the switch while the system is off Continue to depress the reset switch while powering on the system and continue to hold the reset switch for 5 seconds afterward The disk LED s will flash once to signify that the command has been accepted The firmware installation will take several minutes to complete The Status LED in the front will also be solid when the process is complete The installation will not affect th
116. t Disabled Hosts allowed access 192 165 2 101 1924160 22 102 Read only users mary joe Read only groups marketing finance Write enabled users fred Write enabled groups engr Note that access control will differ slightly from service to service Share Display Option Restricting access to a share will not prevent users from seeing the share in the browse list In certain instances this might not be desirable such as for backup shares that you may want to prevent users from seeing To hide a share select the Hide this share option Users who have access to this share must specify the path explicitly For example to access a hidden share enter host share in the Windows Explorer Recycle Bin The 1oSafe R4 can have a Recycle Bin for each share for Windows users You will see the Enable Recycle Bin option at the bottom of the Windows CIFS access tab When enabled whenever you delete a file the file gets inserted into the Recycle Bin folder in the Share rather than being permanently deleted This allows for a grace period where users can restore deleted files P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 56 amp Recycle Bin File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Q pak QJ wi P Search Folders gt PF Address D 11192 168 6 243 backup Recycle Bin Size 1 384 KB 345 KB 1 072 KB 1 018 KB 1 348 KB 1 830 KB 3 725 KB 5 591 KB Type Adobe Acrobat Doc Adobe Acrobat Doc Adobe Acrobat Doc
117. t be easily reversible ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS S A Add Shares Shares gt Network gt Security Display Share List gt Services gt Volumes Shares CIFS AFP HTTP S Advanced Options Share Name backup gt Backup gt Printers System Advanced Share Permission gt Status The following options are provided to override the default settings for shares and should be used with caution Share folder owner admin Share folder group admin Share folder owner rights Read write Share folder group rights Read write x Share folder everyone rights Read write x m Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders in this share to the above settings This option is useful in cases where you are changing security levels and need to workaround file access problems j Grant rename and delete privileges to non owner of files Advanced Share Utilities The following options provide miscellaneous share and share content functionality Use this option to adjust the timestamps of the contents of the share This can be used to fix issues with incremental backups and sources destinations that change local timestamps on Daylight Savings changes Enter a positive number to push timestamps ahead negative numbers to push them back Shift share content timestamps by Jo minutes Advanced Control Setup Wizard Advanced Share Permission The Advanced Share Permission section off
118. t for Flex RAID gt Deleting a Volume gt Adding a Volume gt RAID Settings Volume Management for X RAID gt X RAID Redundancy Overhead gt X RAID Has one data volume P Adding a 2 4 DISK for Redundancy gt Adding a 3 and 4 DISK for MORE Capacity gt Replacing All Your Disks for Even MORE Capacity Changing Between X RAID and Flex RAID Modes Snapshot gt Taking and Scheduling Snapshot P Resizing Snapshot Space USB Storage Shares Adding Shares Managing Shares P Setting Share Access in Share Mode P Setting Share Access in User and Domain Modes gt Advanced Options USB Shares Printers Print Shares over CIFS SMB IPP Printing Managing Print Queues Backup Adding a New Backup Job gt Step 1 Select Backup Source Step 2 Select Backup Destination Step 3 Choose Backup Schedule Step 4 Choose Backup Options vv v P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 33 33 34 36 37 3 37 a7 37 38 oy 40 41 41 42 42 42 42 43 43 43 46 47 50 50 51 53 55 58 59 60 60 61 61 62 62 63 65 65 65 Viewing the Backup Schedule Programming the Backup Button Viewing the Backup Log Editing a Backup Job System Clock gt System Time gt NIP Option Alerts gt Alerts Contacts P Alerts Settings gt SNMP gt SMTP Performance gt Adding a UPS for performance Language Unicode for User Group and Share Names Enable Character encoding conversion for FTP clients Updating ioSafe R4 gt Remo
119. t which remedy or combination of remedies to provide in its sole discretion ioSafe shall have a reasonable time after determining that a defective Product exists to repair or replace a defective Product ioSafe s replacement Product under its limited warranty will be manufactured from new and serviceable used parts ioSafe s warranty applies to repaired or replaced Products for the balance of the applicable period of the original warranty or ninety days from the date of shipment of a repaired or replaced Product whichever is longer LIMITATION OF DAMAGES IOSAFE S ENTIRE LIABILITY FOR ANY DEFECTIVE PRODUCT SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE DEFECTIVE PRODUCT THIS LIMITATION APPLIES EVEN IF IOSAFE CANNOT OR DOES NOT REPAIR OR REPLACE ANY DEFECTIVE PRODUCT AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE NO CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS POLICY OR OTHERWISE IOSAFE WILL NOT BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCTS UNDER ANY CONTRACT NEGLIGENCE STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY I FOR ANY AMOUNT IN EXCESS OF THE PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE DEFECTIVE PRODUCT OR II FOR ANY GENERAL CONSEQUENTIAL PUNITIVE INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES THESE INCLUDE LOSS OF RECORDED DATA INTERRUPTION OF USE THE COST OF RECOVERY OF LOST DATA LOST PROFITS AND THE COST OF THE INSTALLATION OR REMOVAL OF ANY PRODUCTS THE INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT PRODUCTS AND ANY INSPECTION TESTING OR REDE
120. te Update gt Local Update gt Settings gt Factory Default Power Management gt Disk Spin down Option gt Power Timer gt UPS Configuration Shutdown Status Health Logs Windows MAC OS X AFP over Bonjour AFP over AppleTalk MAC OS 9 Linux Unix Web Browser P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 67 68 68 68 69 69 69 69 70 70 71 12 73 74 75 76 TI gi ee g 79 80 80 82 82 83 83 84 85 85 86 88 89 89 91 93 95 96 FTP FTPS 98 Rsync 99 Networked DVE Players and UPnP AV Media Adapters 100 Locate the Failed Disk 101 Ordering Replacement Disk 101 Replace the Failed Disk 101 Re synchronize the Volume 102 Disaster Recovery Procedure 102 RAID Level 0 108 RAID Level 1 108 RAID Level 5 108 RAID Level X X RAID 109 Domain Workgroup Name 110 Host 110 Host Name 110 ioSafe R4 Host Name 110 Host Expression 111 Share Name 111 Share Password 111 SNMP Community 111 User Group Name 111 User Password 111 P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 Congratulations and thank you for purchasing an ioSafe disaster proof backup and storage system from ioSafe Inc This ioSafe system represents the latest technology in disaster proof computer hardwate Chapter 1 FrontView Advanced Control describes all the menus and tabs available in the Advanced Control mode If you have already configured the toSafe R4 and you need help in accessing the shares on the ioSafe
121. the client operating system The available services are P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 33 CIFS Common Internet File Service Sometimes referred to as SMB This protocol is used mainly by Microsoft Windows clients and sometimes used by Mac OS X clients Under Windows when you click on My Network Places or Network Neighborhood youre going across CIFS This service is enabled by default and cannot be disabled NES Network File Service NFS is used by Linux and Unix clients Mac OS 9 X users can access NFS shares as well through console shell access The ioSafe R4 supports NFS v3 over UDP and TCP AFP Apple File Protocol Mac OS 9 and OS X works best using this protocol as it handles an extensive character set The ioSafe R4 supports AFP 3 1 FIP File Transfer Protocol Widely used in public file upload and download sites The ioSafe R4 supports anonymous or user access for FTP clients regardless of the security mode selected If you wish you can elect to set up port forwarding to non standard ports for better security when accessing files over the Internet HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol Used by web browsers The toSafe R4 supports HTTP file manager allowing web browsers to read and write to shares using the web browset This service can be disabled in lieu of HTTPS to allow for a more secure transmission of passwords and data With the option to redirect default web access to a specified share you ca
122. the status bar with the date button which doubles its duty as a clock and a link to the Clock page The status LEDs to the right gives a quick glimpse of the system device status Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply The statuses represent Not present No disk or device attached Normal Device in normal operating mode If the LED is blinking this disk is currently re syncing During the re sync process the performance is temporarily in a degraded mode and another disk failure in the volume will render tt dead Warning or Dead The device has failed or requires attention Inactive spare This disk is a hot spare on standby When a disk fails this disk will take over automatically Awaiting re sync This disk is waiting to re sync to the RAID volume Life support mode The volume has encountered multiple disk failures and is in the state of being marked dead However the ioSafe R4 has blocked it from being marked dead in the event that someone may have accidentally pulled out the wrong disk during runtime If the wrong disk was pulled out shutdown the toSafe R4 immediately reconnect the disk and power on the ioSafe R4 If you reconnect the disk during runtime the ioSafe R4 will mark it as a newly added disk and you will no longer be able to access the data on it Background task active A lengthy background task such as a system update is in progress P N 900 10004 00
123. they will appear appended by an increasing device number i e USB_HDD_2 If the device contains multiple partitions the partitions will be listed beneath the main device entry P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 47 _ fe ioSafe Volumes gt Network gt Security gt Services Volumes Volume Settings USB Storage gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS Home Mogout Volume C i USB Storage Devices The following USB storage devices are connected Device Part Description Used Size FS Speed USB_HDD_1 1 Ext Hard Disk Partition 1 128 MB 695 GB EXT3 480 Options Go USB Flash Device Option IT When a USB flash device is detected automatically copy the content to Copy as owner admin Advanced Control Setup Wizard Thu Oct 23 16 19 15 2008 Partitions on the storage devices must be one of the following file system formats PAT32 NTFS Ext2 Ext To the right of the access icons are command options for the device The following commands are available Disconnect Locate Format FAT32 Format EXT3 This option prepares the USB partition for disconnection by properly unmounting the file system In most cases you can safely disconnect the device without first unmounting however the Disconnect command ensures that any data still in the write cache is written out to the disk
124. tion or recovery shall be strictly limited to whatever files are restorable or recoverable and not what the purchaser believes to exist on the ioSafe product Only one instance of data extraction per ioSafe product is covered by this program Other exclusions may apply See web site for details www iosafe com A qualified disaster is defined as a disaster by which a police or fire incident report is written to describe the disaster event The disaster event would include but is not limited to fire flood theft and acts of God P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 5 Contents Network Ethernet gt Speed Duplex Mode gt MTU gt VLAN Setting gt Performance Setting Global Network Settings gt Hostname gt Default Gateway gt DNS WINS DHCP Route Security Admin Password Security Mode Selection Share Security Mode gt Specify a Workgroup gt Share Accounts User Security Mode P Specify a Workgroup gt Setting up Accounts gt Managing Groups gt Managing Users gt Setting Accounts Preferences Domain Security Mode gt Domain ADS Authentication gt Setting up Accounts P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 14 14 15 15 16 17 17 17 17 18 19 20 21 21 22 23 23 23 23 24 24 Zo 28 30 31 31 or Services Standard File Protocols Streaming Services Discovery Services Volumes Volume Management gt Advantages of Flex RAID gt Advantages of X RAID Volume Managemen
125. try rotating the door to a different orientation Warning Proper seating and latching of the drive is essential to proper operation Verify the replacement drive is fully seated and properly latched before reinstalling the front vent doot The ioSafe R4 system has hot swap drive bays you do not need to power off the ioSafe R4 to replace a failed disk You can replace the disk while the system is on After removing the failed disk wait at least 30 seconds until the disk LED blinks and then insert the new disk Re synchronize the Volume If you powered off the R4 system to replace the failed disk turn the power back on The RAID volume will automatically re synchronize the new disk in the background The process will take several hours depending on disk size During the te syne process the ioSafe R4 can be used as normal although access will be slower until the volume is done te synchronizing You will be notified by email when the re sync process 1s complete Disaster Recovery Procedure This section instructs how to recover data following a natural disaster such as fire water and or physical damage The first step in any disaster recovery is to contact your ioSafe disaster recovery team leader For the most recent version of this document or to locate a team leader go to www iosafe com drsupport or call 888 984 6723 x430 Typical steps to recovering from a disaster CAUTION The presence of fire heat smoke unstable structures
126. user WA Allow upload resumes Disabled E Passive ports 1024 65535 Masquerade as nas 10 1A 17 HTTP or Hypertext Transfer Protocol used everywhere web browsers exist Default access to the ReadyNAS over HTTP will show a share list If you want to use the ReadyNAS as a web server you can specify a share where access will be redirected and you can enable or disable login authentication to that share Please keep in mind that you will only be allowed to redirect to a share that is set up for read only access over HTTP Redirect default web access to this share None selected z Login authentication on this share Disabled z HTTPS or HTTP with SSL encryption used where secure web access is desired If you will be making HTTPS service available to this device outside the firewall you can specify an additional port for this purpose for added security Port 1 443 Port 2 SSL key host 192 168 125 51 Generate new key Rsync a popular incremental backup protocol used in Unix and Linux environments Advanced Control Setup Wizard You will notice three tabs at the top Standard File Protocols Streaming Services and Discovery Services These different services are explained below Standard File Protocols The standard file protocols are common file sharing services that allow your workstation clients file transfer to and from the ioSafe R4 using built in file manager over network file protocols on
127. ust below the Volume tab you will see how much space has been reserved for snapshots Disk space 129 MB 0 of 1917 GB used After snapshot is taken if changes on the volume exceed this reserved space the snapshot is invalidated and can no longer be used Note Changes that occupy space in the snapshot reserved space include new file creation modifications and deletions for instance any time you delete a 1MB file the change caused by the deletion will use up 1MB of reserved space When the snapshot does become invalidated an email alert will be sent and the status will be reflected in the Snapshot tab The snapshot is no longer usable at this stage gt RESIZING SNAPSHOT SPACE If you ate constantly getting snapshot invalidation alerts you may want to either increase the frequency of the snapshot or consider increasing the snapshot reserved space To do this or to eliminate your existing snapshot space thus increasing your usable volume space you can specify the desired snapshot space in the Snapshot Space box Simply select a value from the selection box and click Save Your snapshot space will be limited to approximately 100GB P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 46 fe ioSafe Volumes gt Network gt Security gt Services Volumes gt Shares gt Backup gt Printers gt System gt Status Volume C ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS rome I Refresh ooo toot Disk space
128. v 3 408 v OK oO Power 5 0v 5 211 OK oO Temp 1 44 C 111 F Normal 2 80 C 35 176 F OK Temp 2 36 0 C 96 F Normal 2 60 C 35 140 F OK oO UPS 1 Not present OK osso eee e e0 6 If you look at the front of the ioSafe R4 device the failed disk will have also have a corresponding LED which will be amber in color The top or left most LED is disk channel 1 the next one is disk channel 2 and so on Please take note of the failed channel Ordering Replacement Disk Go to the Status menu and click on the Health tab Take note of the disk size and model utilized on your 1oSafe R4 system It is best to replace a failed disk with the same disk model Contact 1oSafe and arrange to have the disk replaced If the disk is no longer under warranty you can obtain a disk of the same capacity or larger from yout 1oSafe retailer Replace the Failed Disk Contact 1oSafe technical support for hardware specific instructions on replacing a failed disk in your ioSafe R4 system P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 101 On the ioSafe R4 system open up the front vent door using the four thumbscrews on the front of the unit All the disk positions are labeled accordingly identify which disk needs to be replaced Remove the failed disk wait approximately 30 seconds then install the replacement disk and replace the front vent door The front vent door can only be attached tn one orientation If the door doesn t seem to fit
129. w gt Printers gt System IP address 192 168 77 71 gt Status Netmask 255 255 255 0 Speed Duplex mode Auto negotiation z MTU 1500 VLAN Setting Virtual Local Area Networking or VLAN allows devices on different physical LAN segments to communicate with each other as if they were on the same physical network This device can be a member of a VLAN network by enabling the option and specifying a VLAN tag below However do not enable this option unless you are sure your clients also support VLAN Otherwise you will not be able to access this device and you may have to return it to your vendor to restore access VLAN settings will take effect on the next boot Enable VLAN support VLAN tag fo Performance Settings Use these options to tweak network performance Enable jumbo frames Jumbo frames allows combining of multiple packets into one large packet reducing network overhead and increasing large packet transfer performance When a jumbo frame capable switch is used and client systems have jumbo frame capable network controllers you can enable this option Make sure the client network driver is set up for jumbo frame support E Advanced Control Setup Wizard Apply If you assign a static IP address be aware that the browser will lose connection to the ioSafe R4 device after the IP address has been changed You can click Rescan in RAIDar to locate the device and reconnect from there
130. whether it was completed successfully or with errors Editing a Backup Job To edit a backup job you can either click on the 3 digit job number button in the Backup Jobs screen You can make appropriate changes or adjustments to the job P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 68 System To set up and manage your ioSafe R4 system effectively review the settings in the following sections and make any necessary changes Clock An accurate time setting on the Clock screen is required to ensure proper file timestamps You can access the Clock screen by selecting System gt Clock from the main menu gt SYSTEM TIME The System Time tab in the Clock page allows you to set the date time and time zone Set appropriately to ensure files maintain proper timestamp ioSafe R4 powered by ReadyNAS e feee Alerts Performance Language Update Config Backup Power Shutdown Network Accurate clock setting is required to ensure proper file timestamps gt Security gt Services Select Timezone gt Volumes Shares Timezone GMT 08 00 Pacific Time US amp Canada Tijuana z gt Backup gt Printers System Select Current Time Date Time NTP Option gt Stat g 3 3 You can use a local or public NTP Network Time Protocol server to update the clock automatically Deselect the checkbox if you wish to set the time manually above M Synchronize clock with the following NTP server s
131. will not download the actual firmware update but will notify you when an update is available If you enable the Download updates automatically option the update image will be downloaded and you will be notified by email to reboot to the device to perform the update gt FACTORY DEFAULT The Factory Default tab allows you to set the ioSafe R4 device back to factory default Choose this option carefully as ALL DATA WILL BE LOST and remember to back up any data that you wish to keep Select the Remote option if this device is connected to the Internet Local option to upload an update image from your system or Factory Default if you wish to destructively clear the device Remote Local Settings Factory Default Click on Perform Factory Default button below if you wish to reset this device to the factory default state This option clears ALL data and configuration on this device with no recovery option Backup any data you wish to save before selecting this option Perform Factory Default You will be asked to confirm the command by typing FACTORY P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 80 Explorer User Prompt E x a _Cencel_ Factory mode will wipe out all data and configuration To proceed please type FACTORY FACTORY Warning Resetting to Factory Default will erase everything including data shares volume s user and group accounts and configuration information There is no way to recover after you con
132. xplorer address bar i e 4ostname backup as follows backup on nas 00 40 07 nas 00 40 07 File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Qx B JO search f Folders F3 amp nas 00 40 07 backup p 4 Entertainment Center kitchen File and Folder Tasks PSD File B 693 x 458 1 139 KB GIF Image Make a new folder Publish this folder to the w gt Nook UC Costs Web Microsoft Word Document X Microsoft Excel Worksheet 105 KB Fa 16KB S UC Kitchen e Window Bench ali Microsoft Word Document Microsoft Word Document iJ nas 00 40 07 en a 2 oui W N Window Bench 2 y Documen Microsoft Word Document ig My Computer ii a My Network Places P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 88 To access the same share over AFP with OS X select Network from the Finder Go menu Finder File Edit View EA window Help Back 36 Forward 3 Enclosing Folder 3f Computer HC Home TEH Network iDisk A Applications gt Utilities Recent Folders Go to Folder TEG Connect to Server K At this point there are two ways in which you can access your AFP share depending on how you have chosen to advertise your AFP share AFP over Bonjour To access the AFP share advertised over Bonjour on Mac OS X select Network from the Finder Go menu to see a listing of available networks i E Macintosh HD Firefox a Workgroup No items Open the My Network folder to displa
133. y the ioSafe R4 hostname P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 89 re Macintosh HD Firefox a Connect to the file server X 00 64 A6 Firefox Connect as Guest BE Desktop O Registered User G mn A Applications ies Movies Music Pictures In Share security mode simply select Guest to access the shares In User or Domain security mode enter the user name and password you wish to connect to the ioSafe R4 as Firefox BE Desktop backup AS aun A Applications Elly moves uu P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 90 Select the Share you would like to view AFP over AppleTalk If you had chosen to advertise your AFP service over AppleTalk you will see a listing of available networks Giggles Kovana No items No items is Servers Workgroup 2 items No items 1 of 6 selected Zero KB available Open the My Network folder to display the ioSafe R4 hostname Select the one that has the hostname only 2 AFP on nas 00 60 63 nas 00 60 63 1 of 2 selected Zero KB available You ll be prompted with a connection box A a0 Connect to Server Connect to the file server nas 00 60 63 Connect as Guest Registered User Cancel Cee P N 900 10004 00 REV 02 USER GUIDE IOSAFE R4 91 Select Guest and then the share you wish to connect to and click OK 208 nas 00 60 63 Select the volumes to mount mac_s

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