Usage Restrictions - Buffalo TeraStation TS5210DN User Manual

• LAN Port 1 for Alive Check and LAN Port 3 for Failover
Select the IP address labeled "(LAN1)" for the LAN port setting of "IP Settings for File Sharing" and select "(LAN3)"
for "Backup LAN Port" in Settings.
• LAN Port 3 for Both Alive Check and Failover
Select the IP address labeled "(LAN3)" for the LAN port settings both "IP Settings for File Sharing" and "Backup
LAN Port" in Settings.

Usage Restrictions

Functional Restrictions
Failover is not available when any of the following functions are enabled:
Replication, sleep mode, encrypted drive volume, LVM volume, iSCSI volume, port trunking, cloud storage
Sync, hot spare, access restrictions by Active Directory domain
*Even if the function is disabled, the settings may remain if the settings were configured beforehand. Initialize all
settings before configuring failover.
Setting Restrictions
The following functions will not be available while failover is enabled:
Initializing settings, changing the RAID settings, formatting drives, iSCSI volume, changing the backup TeraStation's
settings, turning the TeraStation on and off, updating the firmware
While failover is enabled, shutdown, power-on, and firmware update operations can be made available by
temporarily changing the TeraStation to maintenance mode. Maintenance mode can be enabled or disabled at
Backup > Failover in the main TeraStation's Settings. Click Maintenance mode to enable maintenance mode, or click
Cancel maintenance mode to disable maintenance mode.
To update the firmware while in maintenance mode, the main TeraStation can be updated from Settings, but the
backup TeraStation cannot. Download the firmware updater from the Buffalo website for the backup TeraStation
and try updating the firmware on it.
Non-Transferable Settings
The settings below are not copied from the main TeraStation to the backup TeraStation. Make a note of the original
settings so that they can be configured manually if failover errors.
WebAccess , UPS synchronization, antivirus
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backup TeraStation or USB drives as the backup destination, and USB drives' shared folder settings
LAN port 1
(Static IP)
Network
LAN port 1
(Static IP)
, the backup job settings either if specifying shared folders on the
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LAN port 3
(Static IP)
Main
LAN port 3
(Static IP)
Backup
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, Dropbox
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