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- Page 1 Highly Reliable Systems 5 Bay Mini-Tower High-Rely Classic 5-10 Bay Rack Mount eSATA/USB 3.0 Disk Based Backup Systems Documentation V1.1 Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
- Page 2 XP systems with some coverage of Vista. Although the High-Rely may work with Windows NT, Linux, Mac OS X and other operating systems, at this time, our tech support can assist with Windows platforms only. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
9 High-Rely product line, please visit our website at www.high-rely.com or see page 2 of HR Documentation SATAV2-2 ( the manual for the 1 Bay Slimline, 5 Bay, 7, 8 and 10 Bay high-rely models)...............................24 10 Contact............................25 Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. -
Page 4: Introduction
The High-Rely Multi-bay Classic systems and helper software were designed to make configuring your existing backup system software as easy as possible to start taking advantage of the speed, reliability and cost saving of hard disk backup. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. -
Page 5: Terminology
Tray – The removable cartridge which holds the hard disk. • Media – The assembly of the hard disk in the tray. • Receiver – Also referred to as the bay. The slot where the Media is inserted. • Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. -
Page 6: Front Panel Controls And Indicators
*No front power indicators on 10 bay. Power switch – Rocker-Type. *No front power switch on 10 Bay. ***Figure 1 – Front side of 5 Bay MT and 5-10 Bay RM. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. -
Page 7: Back Panel Controls And Indicators
Chassis Cooling ESATA/USB 3.0 Back Panel Power Supply Power Supply Cooling Fan Voltage Selector Standard Business Machine AC Power Cord Socket ***Figure 2 – Back side of 5 Bay MT. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. - Page 8 Voltage Selector Main Power Back Panels Chassis Cooling Switch (only 1 if 5 bay model) Standard Business Machine AC Power Cord Socket ***Figure 3 – Back side of 5-10 Bay RM. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
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Page 9: Installation - Connecting To Your Computer
6. Install media and turn the keylock to the locked/on position (see section, Inserting and removing media). 7. Connect your patch cable (USB or eSATA) from the eSATA or USB 3.0/2.0 port of your Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. - Page 10 If you do not see the drive appear, try reseating your cables. Try power cycling both the host and the High-Rely unit. Again, if this fails, consider controller issues and compatibility. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
- Page 11 RAID 5 is created. Concatenates all drives. CLONE Clones drives (all drives get the same data). ***Figure 5 “Back Panel of Model B, Dip Switch Settings” Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
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Page 12: Operating Scenarios
The set of 5 media is changed once a week before the day of the full backups. Also, the backup start time of each server are set to start well after the backup of the previous server has ended so that Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. - Page 13 High-Rely is on can become swamped and the jobs may not complete or connection problems could occur. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
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Page 14: Operation
Also, if your software needs to use the multple drives witht he same drive letter, then you need to read the section below on HRDM2. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. -
Page 15: Hrdm2
2. To assign letters to drives you must first acquire each drive’s Volume Serial Number. One way to get this information is to open a Command Prompt, and use the ‘dir’ command, as show here: Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. - Page 16 3. Once you have all of your Volume Serial Numbers, open the file called HRDM.INI, which is located in the same folder that you installed the program in using the Install Wizard. (Default location is: C:\Program Files\Highly Reliable Systems\HRDM2\HRDM2.ini) Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
- Page 17 This means if a drive’s Volume Serial Number is added to the HRDM2.ini file after the drive is turned to the on position then it needs to be restarted before the new assignments will take effect. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
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Page 18: Inserting/Removing Media
Do not attempt to insert the drive with the release lever closed. Push the drive all the way in until you feel resistance. At this time move the small lever (the “lock cover” lever) to its midway (position E). Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. - Page 19 However, be sure the media is not being written to by the host before removing it or the data on the drive could be incomplete or corrupted. In the final step the “Lock Cover” should be moved to position D Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
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Page 20: Reading/Setting Media Display
12. Day Indicator (On when numeric display is showing days/hours of operation) 13. SET indicator (positioned above SET button) 14. Hard Drive Usage Time Symbol (On when display is showing days/hours of operation) Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. - Page 21 If at any time during the SET process you do not depress any buttons for 15 seconds, the unit will exit setup mode and return to the normal display. All settings made up to that point will be cancelled if this happens. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
- Page 22 The High-Rely alarm circuitry has malfunctioned. Hit any blue button to silence the alarm. Then determine what caused the error condition and correct it.. Replacement fans and drive trays are available from Highly-Reliable Systems. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
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Page 23: Troubleshooting
5. All others. For all other issues, check our READ FIRST page on our website under technical support or check our support database also on our website before contacting our technical support department. Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. -
Page 24: High-Rely Product Line, Please Visit Our Website At Www.high-Rely.com Or See Page 2 Of Hr
High-Rely product line, please visit our website at www.high-rely.com see page 2 of HR Documentation SATAV2-2 ( the manual for the 1 Bay Slimline, 5 Bay, 7, 8 and 10 Bay high-rely models). Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved. -
Page 25: Contact
Contact Contact Information Highly Reliable Systems 1900 Vassar Street Reno Nevada 89502-2109 TEL: 775-329-5139 FAX: 775-322-5397 www.high-rely.com Copyright © 2011 by Highly Reliable Systems. All rights reserved.
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