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NETGEAR ReadyNAS
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NETGEAR, Inc.
4500 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
202-10320-01
v1.0
October 2007

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  • Page 1 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide NETGEAR, Inc. 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 202-10320-01 v1.0 October 2007...

  • Page 2: Technical Support

    In the interest of improving internal design, operational function, and/or reliability, NETGEAR reserves the right to make changes to the products described in this document without notice. NETGEAR does not assume any liability that may occur due to the use or application of the product(s) or circuit layout(s) described herein.
  • Page 3 Product and Publication Details Model Number: Publication Date: October 2007 Product Family: Network Storage Product Name: ReadyNAS Network Attached Storage Home or Business Product: Business Language: English Publication Part Number: 202-10320-01 Publication Version Number: v1.0, October 2007...
  • Page 4 v1.0, October 2007...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Contents NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide About This Manual Conventions, Formats, and Scope ..................x How to Use This Manual ....................xi How to Print This Manual ....................xi Revision History ........................xii Chapter 1 Configuring Your ReadyNAS Specifying Your Ethernet Connection Settings ...............1-2 Global Network Settings ...................1-5...
  • Page 6 USB Shares ......................1-41 Configuring Backup Jobs ....................1-42 Adding a New Backup Job ..................1-43 Viewing the Backup Schedule ................1-48 Programming the Backup Button ................1-49 Viewing the Backup Log ..................1-49 Editing a Backup Job .....................1-50 Setting Up Printers .......................1-50 Print Shares over CIFS/SMB .................1-50 IPP Printing ......................1-51 Managing Print Queues ..................1-51 Managing Your ReadyNAS System ................1-52...
  • Page 7 Logs .........................3-2 Replacing a Failed Disk ....................3-3 Ordering a Replacement Disk ..................3-3 Replacing a Failed Disk on the ReadyNAS NV+ .............3-3 Replacing the Failed Disk on the ReadyNAS 1100 ..........3-4 Replacing the Failed Disk on the ReadyNAS 600/X6 ..........3-5 Resynchronizing the Volume ..................3-6 Resetting Your System (System Switch) ................3-6 Configuring RAID on the ReadyNAS 1100 and NV+ ............3-7 Backing Up the ReadyNAS to a USB Drive ..............3-9...
  • Page 8 viii Contents v1.0, October 2007...

  • Page 9: About This Manual

    Congratulations on your purchase of a ReadyNAS Network Attached Storage system from NETGEAR, Inc. If you have not already done so, please read the printed Installation Guide provided with your product and the ReadyNAS Setup Manual on the Installation CD.

  • Page 10: Conventions, Formats, And Scope

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Conventions, Formats, and Scope The conventions, formats, and scope of this manual are described in the following paragraphs: • Typographical Conventions. This manual uses the following typographical conventions: Italic Emphasis, books, CDs, file and server names, extensions...

  • Page 11: How To Use This Manual

    Double-click on a link in the table of contents or index to navigate directly to where the topic is described in the manual. • button to access the full NETGEAR, Inc. online knowledge base for the product model. • Links to PDF versions of the full manual and individual chapters.

  • Page 12: Revision History

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • Click the print icon in the upper left corner of your browser window. Tip: If your printer supports printing two pages on a single sheet of paper, you can save paper and printer ink by selecting this feature.

  • Page 13: Configuring Your Readynas

    The basic network settings and other, optional, more advanced features are included in this chapter. NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] Figure 1-1 When you first switch to this mode, you see the menus on the left that allow you to quickly jump to the screen you want.

  • Page 14: Specifying Your Ethernet Connection Settings

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Toward the bottom left, there are two buttons that allow you to switch back and forth between the Setup Wizard mode and the Advanced Control mode. At the bottom of the screen is the status bar including the date button on the left which, which clicked, links you to the Clock screen.
  • Page 15 IP Assignment. Select either Use values from a DHCP server or Use values below. – If you elect to assign the IP address using Use values from a DHCP server, NETGEAR advises that you set the lease time on the DHCP server/router to a value of at least a day.
  • Page 16 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If you wish to use the ReadyNAS in a VLAN environment, select the Enable VLAN support check box, and enter a numeric VLAN tag. You need to reboot the ReadyNAS for the VLAN function to take effect.

  • Page 17: Global Network Settings

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Global Network Settings Figure 1-9 Hostname The Hostname you specify is used to advertise the ReadyNAS on your network. You can use the hostname to address the ReadyNAS in place of the IP address when accessing the ReadyNAS from Windows, or over OS X using SMB.

  • Page 18: Wins

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide DNS Settings The DNS area allows you to specify up to three Domain Name Service servers for hostname resolution. The DNS service translates host names into IP addresses. If you selected the DHCP option in the Ethernet or Wireless tab, the Domain Name Server fields are automatically populated with the DNS settings from your DHCP server.

  • Page 19: Dhcp

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide DHCP The DHCP tab allows you to specify this device 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.

  • Page 20: Security Mode

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide this password is kept in a safe place. Anyone who obtains this password can effectively change or erase the data on the ReadyNAS. Figure 1-12 Note: In User or Domain security mode, you can use the admin account to log in to a Windows share, and perform maintenance on any file or folder in that share.
  • Page 21 ReadyNAS. Note: The FrontView management system slows down in proportion to the number of users in the domain. NETGEAR advises that you do not use the ReadyNAS in a domain environment with more than 1000 users. Configuring Your ReadyNAS...
  • Page 22 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-14 Share Security Mode The Share Security Mode is the easiest security option to set up and is adequate for home or small offices. Select this option if you want to restrict share access with the use of an optional share password.
  • Page 23 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide You need to specify a workgroup only if you wish to change it from the default. A valid workgroup name must conform to the following restrictions: • The name must consist of characters a–z, A–Z, 0–9, and the symbols _ (underscore), – (dash), and.
  • Page 24 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 3. Click Apply to save your changes. Domain Security Mode If you choose the Domain security mode option, you 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 ReadyNAS device.

  • Page 25: Setting Up User And Group Accounts

    The FrontView management system might slow down to an unusable state. Note: NETGEAR does not recommend the use of the ReadyNAS in a domain environment with more than 1000 users at this time. Click Apply to join the domain. If Auto-detection is successful, users and groups from the domain now have login access to the shares on this device.
  • Page 26 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-16 After adding your groups, you can view or change your groups by clicking the alphabetical index tab, or click All to list all groups. Figure 1-17 If you wish to add a large number of groups, select Import group list from the pull-down menu.
  • Page 27 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide name3,gid3,quota3,member31:member32:member33 Please note the following: • Spaces around commas are ignored. • The name field is required. • Quota is set to default if not specified. • GID is automatically generated if not specified. • Empty fields are replaced with account defaults.
  • Page 28 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-19 Only the user name and password fields are required; however, you should specify a user e-mail address if you intend to set up disk quotas. Without an e-mail address, the user will not be warned when disk usage approaches the specified disk quota limit.

  • Page 29: Selecting Services For Share Access

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • UID is automatically generated if not specified. • Empty fields are replaced with account defaults. 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):...

  • Page 30: Standard File Protocols

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Standard File Protocols The standard file protocols are common file-sharing services that allow your workstation clients to transfer files to and from the ReadyNAS using built-in file manager-over-network file protocols supported by the client operating system. The available services are: •...

  • Page 31: Streaming Services

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Mac. Enabling rsync service on the ReadyNAS allows clients to use rsync to initiate backups to and from the ReadyNAS. Figure 1-22 Streaming Services The built-in streaming services on the ReadyNAS allow you to stream multi-media content directly from the ReadyNAS, without the need to have your PC or Mac powered on.
  • Page 32 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-23 • SlimServer provides music streaming to the popular Squeezebox music players from Slim Devices. You can click the http setup link for more detailed configuration options. • iTunes Streaming Server enables iTunes clients to stream media files straight from the ReadyNAS.

  • Page 33: Discovery Services

    The ReadyNAS family 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 one or the other; however, you can switch between the two modes through a factory default reset process described in “Resetting Your System (System...

  • Page 34: Volume Management For Flex-Raid

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide There are advantages to both technologies. • Flex-RAID: – The default volume can be deleted and re-created, with or without the snapshot reserved space. – Hot spare disk is supported. – Full volume management is available—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, and so –...
  • Page 35 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Deleting a Volume To delete a volume, select the Volume tab of the volume you wish to delete (if there are multiple volumes) and click Delete Volume (in this case only Volume C is configured). Warning: Make sure that you back up the files you wish to keep before deleting a volume.
  • Page 36 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-27 To add a volume: 1. Select the hard disks. In this example, we select the first three disks and elect not to specify any of them as a hot spare. 2. Select the RAID level. RAID level determines how the redundancy, capacity utilization, and performance are implemented for the volume.
  • Page 37 An additional disk failure would render this volume unusable. Note: The Remove operation is a maintenance feature. NETGEAR recommends that you do not use it in a live environment. Its function is equivalent to hot-removing the disk or simulating a disk failure.

  • Page 38: Volume Management For X-Raid

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 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 over 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 previously available only in enterprise-level storage solutions.
  • Page 39 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide within a few hours, your data volume will be fully redundant. The process occurs in the background, so access to the ReadyNAS is not interrupted. Adding a Third and Fourth Disk for More Capacity At a certain point, you will want more capacity. With typical RAID volumes, you have to back up 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.

  • Page 40: Changing Between X-Raid And Flex-Raid Modes

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide When you receive a completion notification for the fourth disk, reboot the ReadyNAS. During reboot, volume capacity is expanded with the additional capacity from each disk. For instance, if you replaced four 250GB disks with four 600GB disks, the capacity of the volume increases by approximately 350GB x 3 (the fourth disk is reserved for parity).
  • Page 41 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • If you specify a start and end time of 00:00, ReadyNAS will take one snapshot at midnight. A start time of 00:00 and an end time of 23:00 will set snapshots to be taken between midnight and 11 pm the next day at the interval you specify. Once you save the snapshot schedule, the time of the next snapshot is displayed.
  • Page 42 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 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 ReadyNAS, so deactivating it when it is not needed might be advantageous in write-intensive environments.

  • Page 43: Usb Storage

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide After the 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 reserved snapshot space include new file creation, modifications, and deletions;...
  • Page 44 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide device number; for example, USB_HDD_2. If the device contains multiple partitions, the partitions are listed beneath the main device entry. Figure 1-35 Partitions on the storage devices must be one of the following file system formats: •...

  • Page 45: Managing Your Shares

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Format FAT32 This option formats the device as a FAT32 file system. FAT32 format is easily recognizable by most newer Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems. Format EXT3 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 ReadyNAS devices.

  • Page 46: Adding Shares

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-36 Adding Shares To add a share: 1. From the main menu, select Volumes > Volume Settings. If more than one volume is configured, click on the volume you wish to add the share. 2. Select Add Shares. Add Shares has two views, depending on the security mode. In the Add Shares screen, enter the share name, description and, optionally, the password and disk quota.

  • Page 47: Managing Shares

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 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. In either case, you can add up to five shares at a time. Once you finish adding the shares, refer to Chapter 2, “Accessing Shares...
  • Page 48 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide The settings are as follows: • 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 allowed only for...
  • Page 49 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide For example, select read-only for Default Access and list the hosts you wish to allow access to. Access from all other hosts will be denied. To allow only host 192.168.2.101 read-only access to the share, specify the following: •...
  • Page 50 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • Default: Read-only • Write-enabled users: fred • Write-enabled groups: engr If you wish to limit this 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 •...
  • Page 51 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-42 Recycle Bin. The ReadyNAS can have a Recycle Bin for each share for Windows users. The Enable Recycle Bin option is shown at the bottom of the CIFS screen. When this check box is selected, whenever you delete a file, the file gets inserted into the Recycle Bin folder in the share rather than being permanently deleted.
  • Page 52 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide others (that is, everyone). Permission for newly created folders is read/write for everyone. If the default does not 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.

  • Page 53: Usb Shares

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-45 Advanced Share Permission. The Advanced Share Permission section offers 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 performs a one-time change.

  • Page 54: Configuring Backup Jobs

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-46 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 ReadyNAS and PC systems.

  • Page 55: Adding A New Backup Job

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Adding a New Backup Job To create a new backup job, select Add a New Backup Job. A 4-step procedure screen for creating a job displays. Figure 1-47 Step 1 – Select Backup Source The backup source can be located remotely, or it can be a public or a private home share, or all home shares on the ReadyNAS.
  • Page 56 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • 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 ReadyNAS devices.
  • Page 57 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide My Documents/My Pictures With a remote source, you might need to enter a login and password to access the share. If you are accessing a password-protected share on a remote ReadyNAS server configured for Share security mode, enter the name of the share name for login.
  • Page 58 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If you wish, you can elect not to schedule the backup job so that you can invoke it manually instead by clearing (deselecting) the Perform backup every... check box. (You might want to do this if your ReadyNAS has a backup button.) Figure 1-49 Step 4 –...
  • Page 59 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide as expected. You can elect to send only errors encountered during backup, full backup logs consisting of file listings (can be large), or status and errors (status refers to completion status). Note: Backup log e-mails are restricted to approximately 10K lines. To view the full backup log (regardless of length), select Status >...

  • Page 60: Viewing The Backup Schedule

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Viewing the Backup Schedule After saving the backup job, a new job appears in the Backup Schedule section of the Backup Jobs screen. Figure 1-50 A summary of the backup jobs that have been scheduled are shown; jobs are numbered beginning at 001.

  • Page 61: Programming The Backup Button

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Programming the Backup Button On ReadyNAS systems that have the Backup Button feature, you can program the button to execute one or more pre-defined backup jobs (see “Backing Up the ReadyNAS to a USB Drive” on page 3-9 for more information).

  • Page 62: Editing A Backup Job

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Editing a Backup Job To edit a backup job, you can either click the 3-digit job number button in the Backup Jobs screen, or you can click the Edit Backup Job link while viewing that job log. You can then make appropriate changes or adjustments to the job.

  • Page 63: Ipp Printing

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-54 IPP Printing The ReadyNAS also supports the IETF standard Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) over HTTP. Any client supporting IPP printing (IPP is available natively on the latest Windows XP OS and OS X) can now use this protocol to utilize printers connected to the ReadyNAS. The simplest way to utilize IPP printing is to use Bonjour to discover and set up the print queue.

  • Page 64: Managing Your Readynas System

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Managing Your ReadyNAS System To set up and manage your ReadyNAS effectively, make sure that you review the settings in the following sections, and implement any necessary modifications or updates. 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 >...

  • Page 65: Alerts

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 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 your locale.
  • Page 66 Figure 1-58 NETGEAR strongly recommends that you keep all alerts enabled; however, you might choose to disable an alert if you are aware of a problem and wish to temporarily disable it. At the bottom of the screen in the Other Alert Settings section, there are a couple of additional options of note.
  • Page 67 5. Click Apply to save your settings. When you have saved the SNMP settings on the ReadyNAS, you can import the NETGEAR SNMP MIB to your SNMP client application. The NETGEAR MIB can be obtained from the included Installation CD or downloaded from the NETGEAR Support site at http://www.netgear.com/support.

  • Page 68: Performance

    • NETGEAR recommends that you select the Disable full data journaling only if the NAS has UPS protection. Without battery backup, there is a small chance that parity written to a disk in a RAID set might become out of sync with the data disks if a power failure suddenly occurs, possibly causing incorrect data to be recovered if one disk fails.
  • Page 69 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-61 • 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.
  • Page 70 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide – Since Windows runs in case-insensitive mode, one side-effect of enabling this option is that two file names with different cases (for example, ABC and abc) appear as two files but, when you open one file, the other file might actually open.

  • Page 71: Language

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Language The Language Setting screen offers the option of setting the ReadyNAS device to the appropriate character set for file names. Figure 1-63 For example, selecting Japanese allows you to share files with Japanese names in Windows Explorer.

  • Page 72: Updating Readynas

    The preferred and quicker method if the ReadyNAS has Internet access is the Remote update option. Select Update from the main menu and then select the Remote tab. Click Check for Updates to check for updates on the NETGEAR update server. Figure 1-65...
  • Page 73 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 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 updates only the firmware image and does not modify your data volume. However, it is always a good idea to back up your important data whenever you perform an update.

  • Page 74: Power Management

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Settings If you do have a reliable Internet connection, you can enable the automatic update check and download options in the Settings tab. Figure 1-68 If you select the Automatically check for updates check box, the ReadyNAS does not download the actual firmware update, but notifies you when an update is available.
  • Page 75 Note: Enabling disk spin-down disables journal mode. Once enabled, if you decide to disable disk spin-down, you need to manually re-enable journal mode if desired. NETGEAR recommends UPS if you utilize this option. Power Timer The ReadyNAS can be scheduled to power off and power back on (on certain models)

  • Page 76: Shutdown

    You do not need to select these options unless you suspect there might be data or quota integrity problems. 1. Please refer to the Release Notes for RAIDiator 3 on the NETGEAR Support site for more information. 1-64 Configuring Your ReadyNAS v1.0, October 2007...
  • Page 77 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-71 When you reboot or shut down the ReadyNAS, you must close the browser window and use RAIDar to reconnect to FrontView. Configuring Your ReadyNAS 1-65 v1.0, October 2007...
  • Page 78 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 1-66 Configuring Your ReadyNAS v1.0, October 2007...

  • Page 79: Accessing Shares From Your Operating System

    Chapter 2 Accessing Shares from Your Operating System This chapter presents examples of how shares on the ReadyNAS device can be accessed by the various operating systems. If you have problems accessing your shares, make sure to enable the corresponding service by selecting Shares > Share Listing screen. Also make sure that the default access of the share is set to Read-only or Read/write.

  • Page 80: Mac Os X

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-2 MAC OS X To access the same share over AFP with OS X, select Network from the Finder Go > Network menu. Figure 2-3 From here, there are two ways to access your AFP share, depending on how you have chosen to advertise your AFP share.

  • Page 81: Afp Over Bonjour

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 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. Figure 2-4 Open the My Network folder to display the ReadyNAS hostname.

  • Page 82: Afp Over Appletalk

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-6 From the Volumes field, select the share you want to access and click OK. AFP over AppleTalk If you chose to advertise your AFP service over AppleTalk, a listing of available networks is displayed.
  • Page 83 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-8 Select Guest and click Connect. Then, select the share you want to connect to and click OK. Figure 2-9 In Share security mode, you need to specify only the user name and password—if you have set up a password for your share.

  • Page 84: Mac Os 9

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 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 section, and click Connect. Figure 2-10 When you are prompted to log in, enter the share name and password if the ReadyNAS is configured for Share security mode, otherwise enter a valid user account and password otherwise, and click Connect.

  • Page 85: Linux/Unix

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-12 You should see the same files in the share that you do in Windows Explorer. Figure 2-13 Linux/Unix To access this share from a Linux or Unix client, you will need to mount the share over NFS by entering: mount <ipaddr>:/<backup /backup>...

  • Page 86: Web Browser

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-14 Note: The ReadyNAS does not support NIS as it is unable to correlate NIS information with CIFS logins. In mixed environments where you want CIFS and NFS integration, 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.
  • Page 87 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If the ReadyNAS is in Share security mode, enter the share name and share password. Otherwise, log in with a valid user name and password if the ReadyNAS is in User or Domain mode. Figure 2-16 If the Share access is read-only, only the file manager displays.
  • Page 88 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-18 One useful application for a Web share is to set 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.

  • Page 89: Ftp/Ftps

    Figure 2-19 Note: Enabling FTP access in Share mode opens up the share to anyone on your network who has an FTP client. NETGEAR recommends that you enable FTP access only to shares you are comfortable making public on your network.

  • Page 90: Rsync

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Rsync Access to the share through rsync is identical regardless of the security mode. If you specified a user or password in the rsync share access tab, you will need to specify this when accessing the rsync share.

  • Page 91: Networked Dvd Players And Upnp Av Media Adapters

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Networked DVD Players and UPnP AV Media Adapters Networked DVD players and UPnP AV Media adapters detect the ReadyNAS if either the Home Media Streaming Server or the UPnP AV services are enabled. The content of the Streaming Services media share on the ReadyNAS is available to these players for playback.
  • Page 92 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 2-14 Accessing Shares from Your Operating System v1.0, October 2007...

  • Page 93: Maintenance And Administration

    Chapter 3 Maintenance and Administration Viewing System Status The Status menu contains links to the Health screen and Logs screen that provide system status information. Health The Health screen displays the status of each disk, and the fan, temperature, and UPS status in detail.

  • Page 94: Logs

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 3-2 To recalibrate the fan, click Recalibrate. Logs Select Status > Logs to access the Clear Logs screen. The Clear Logs screen provides information about the status of management tasks, including a timestamp. Figure 3-3 The Download All Logs link is available in case you need to analyze low-level log information.

  • Page 95: Replacing A Failed Disk

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Replacing a Failed Disk When a disk fails in your ReadyNAS device, you are notified of the failure by e-mail. The failed disk location can be seen in the FrontView status bar at the bottom by selecting Status > Health.

  • Page 96: Replacing The Failed Disk On The Readynas 1100

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 1. Open the disk tray door. 2. Press the button under the failed disk. The latch pops out. Figure 3-5 3. Pull out the disk tray and remove the screws. 4. Replace the failed disk, reassemble, and slide the disk tray back in. Make sure that the hard disk connectors are facing away from you when you reassemble the disk.

  • Page 97: Replacing The Failed Disk On The Readynas 600/X6

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 3. Replace the failed disk by placing the disk in the disk tray and sliding the disk tray back into the device. Figure 3-7 Replacing the Failed Disk on the ReadyNAS 600/X6 On the ReadyNAS 600/X6 system, shut down the ReadyNAS and open up the enclosure as instructed in the Installation Guide.

  • Page 98: Resynchronizing The Volume

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Resynchronizing the Volume If you had to power off to replace the failed disk, turn on the power on the ReadyNAS. The RAID volume automatically resynchronizes with the new disk in the background. The process takes several hours depending on disk size. During the resync process, the ReadyNAS can be used as normal, although access will be slower until the volume is finished resynchronizing.

  • Page 99: Configuring Raid On The Readynas 1100 And Nv

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • To set the ReadyNAS 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 will see the disk LEDs flash for a second time to signify that the command has been accepted.
  • Page 100 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide The following figure illustrates the default configuration with redundancy in your ReadyNAS NV+. Figure 3-8 You can switch between the X-RAID Expandable Volume mode and the RAID 0/1/5 Flexible Volume mode only if you want to change the default configuration. It is not necessary to perform this procedure every time you boot up the system.

  • Page 101: Backing Up The Readynas To A Usb Drive

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 4. Open RAIDar. RAIDar will prompt you to click Setup. The ReadyNAS Volume Setup screen displays. Figure 3-9 5. Select either the Expandable Volume (X-RAID) or the Volume (RAID 0,1,5) radio button and click Create Volume Now. The volume and initialization process begins.

  • Page 102: Readynas1100 Backup

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide ReadyNAS1100 Backup On the ReadyNAS1100, the Backup button is associated with the USB Port at the front of the system. By default, the Backup button copies the data from the Backup share onto the USB disk connected to the USB port at the front of the device (as shown in the following figure).

  • Page 103: Removing The System Module From The Readynas 1100

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Removing the System Module from the ReadyNAS 1100 To access the system module and remove it from the ReadyNAS1100: 1. Power off the unit and remove the screws. 2. Lift up the latch. 3. Pull the system module forward; it slides out easily.
  • Page 104 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide In Share and Domain security mode, the Password tab does not appear. Note: User passwords in Domain mode must be set on the domain or ADS server. 3-12 Maintenance and Administration v1.0, October 2007...

  • Page 105: Appendix Araid Levels Simplified

    Appendix A RAID Levels Simplified RAID can be somewhat daunting; this appendix helps to simplify RAID. 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 one or more remaining disks.

  • Page 106: Raid Level 5

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 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 data transparently to the user application.

  • Page 107: Appendix B Input Field Format

    Appendix B Input Field Format Domain or 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), - (hyphen), and . (period). •...
  • Page 108 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • 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 - (hyphen) and . (period). • Name cannot be an existing user name. • Name cannot end in -snap.
  • Page 109 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide User Password • The password can be any character except for ' (single quote). Input Field Format v1.0, October 2007...
  • Page 110 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Input Field Format v1.0, October 2007...
  • Page 111 Files can be restored from the snapshot volume if current files are corrupted. Volume A file system built on top of a RAID set. This file system consists of shares that are made available through various network file services. X-RAID NETGEAR patent-pending Expandable RAID technology. Glossary v1.0, October 2007...
  • Page 112 NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Glossary v1.0, October 2007...
  • Page 113 Index Numerics setting contacts 1-53 Apple File Protocol. See AFP. 1100 AppleTalk configuring RAID 3-7 AFP 2-4 replacing disk 3-4 system module removal 3-11 1100 backup USB 3-10 Backup Button 600/X6 programming 1-49 replacing disk 3-5 Backup Jobs adding new 1-43 configuring 1-42 editing 1-50 accessing shares...
  • Page 114 NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual adding a volume 1-23 deleting a volume 1-23 Default Gateway 1-5 frame size 1-4 Deleting a Volume FrontView Flex-RAID 1-23 accessing 1-1 DHCP 1-7 FTP 1-18 enabling/disabiling 1-7 backup jobs 1-43 settings 1-2 FTP/FTPS Digital Living Network.
  • Page 115 NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual setting 1-3 configuring RAID 3-7 static, setting 1-3 replacing disk 3-3 iTunes Streaming Server 1-20 NV+ backup USB 3-10 jumbo frames performance settings 1-4 Organization Unit. See OU. OU 1-12 Language settings 1-59 password...
  • Page 116 NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual health 3-1 Snapshots 1-28 updating 1-60 expiration 1-30 viewing Logs 3-2 resizing space 1-31 scheduling 1-28 replacement disks taking manually 1-29 ordering 3-3 temporary backups 1-28 replacing disks SNMP 1-54 increasing capacity 1-27 CA UniCenter 1-54...
  • Page 117 NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual name 1-11 configuration of 1-64 setup 1-11 performance, adding 1-58 USB 1-33 backing up to 3-9 X-RAID 1-22 flash device 1-33 adding a second disk 1-26 formats, EXT3 1-33 adding more disks 1-27 formats, FAT32 1-33...
  • Page 118 NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual Index-6 v1.0, August 2007...
  • Page 119 NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual Index-7 v1.0, August 2007...
  • Page 120 NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual Index-8 v1.0, August 2007...

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