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ReadyNAS Pro
Business Edition User
Guide
NETGEAR, Inc.
350 E Plumeria Drive
San Jose, CA 95134 USA
202-10406-01
v1.2
October 2008

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  • Page 1 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide NETGEAR, Inc. 350 E Plumeria Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA 202-10406-01 v1.2 October 2008...

  • 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 2008 Product Family: Network Storage Product Name: ReadyNAS Pro Network Attached Storage System Business Edition Home or Business Product: Business Language: English Publication Part Number: 202-10406-01 Publication Version Number: v1.2, October 2008...
  • Page 4 v1.2, October 2008...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Initial Setup ........................1-7 Default IP Address, Login Name, and Password .............1-8 The RAIDar Setup Utility ....................1-8 The FrontView Management Console ................1-9 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Community ................1-10 Chapter 2 Setting Up and Managing Your ReadyNAS Pro Customizing Network Settings ..................2-1 Ethernet Interfaces ....................2-2 Global Network Settings ...................2-5...
  • Page 6 Updating the Admin Password ..................2-8 Selecting Services for Share Access ................2-9 Standard File Protocols ....................2-9 Streaming Services ....................2-11 Discovery Services ....................2-12 Understanding Volume Management ................2-12 Overview of RAID Levels and X-RAID2 ..............2-13 Volume Management for Flex-RAID ..............2-15 Volume Management for X-RAID2 .................2-18 Volume Maintenance ....................2-19 Changing between X-RAID2 and Flex-RAID Modes ..........2-20 Working with USB Volumes ...................2-20...
  • Page 7 Networked DVD Players and UPnP AV Media Adapters ..........3-20 Remote Access ......................3-20 Remote FTP Access ....................3-21 Remote HTTP Access ....................3-22 Chapter 4 Securing Your Data Configuring Backup Jobs ....................4-1 Adding a New Backup Job ..................4-1 Viewing the Backup Schedule ..................4-6 Programming the Backup Button ................4-7 Viewing the Backup Log ...................4-8 Editing a Backup Job ....................4-8...
  • Page 8 Shutdown ........................6-8 Appendix A Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems MAC OS X ........................A-1 AFP over Bonjour ....................A-2 AFP over AppleTalk ....................A-3 MAC OS 9 ........................A-5 Accessing Shares from Linux/Unix ................A-7 Appendix B Related Documents Index viii Contents...

  • Page 9: About This Manual

    About This Manual The NETGEAR® ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide describes how to configure and troubleshoot a ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition system. The information in this manual is intended for readers with intermediate computer and networking skills. Conventions, Formats, and Scope The conventions, formats, and scope of this manual are described in the following paragraphs: •...

  • Page 10: 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 11: Revision History

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide – Printing a PDF version of the complete manual. Use the Complete PDF Manual link at the top left of any page. • Click the Complete PDF Manual link at the top left of any page in the manual. The PDF version of the complete manual opens in a browser window.
  • Page 12 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide About This Manual v1.2, October 2008...

  • Page 13: Getting Acquainted

    Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems. ReadyNAS Pro offers extensible robust high- availability data protection. Its fail-safe features include dual redundant Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for RAID 0, 1, 5, RAID 5 plus hot spare, RAID 6, and NETGEAR’s proprietary X-RAID2 for automatic volume expansion.

  • Page 14: What Are The Benefits Of X-Raid And X-Raid2

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide entire system for abnormal situations or part failures and e-mails system alerts to the network administrator. In addition, the Frontview Add-on SDK provides developers the tools for uniquely extending ReadyNAS capabilities. For a full list of what is new compared with existing ReadyNAS systems, see ReadyNAS Specifications on ReadyNAS.com.

  • Page 15: X-Raid2 Is Even More Flexible

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide The X-RAID Data Volume X-RAID has one data volume. This volume uses the capacity of the smallest disk from each disk. For instance, if you had one 80 GB disk and two 250 GB disks, only 80 GB from each disk is used in the volume.

  • Page 16: Introducing The Status Displays, Ports, And Drive Bay

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Introducing the Status Displays, Ports, and Drive Bay This section introduces the ReadyNAS Pro display, ports, and drive bay. Front and Side Panel Figure 1-1 1. OLED display, including the disk activity status light 2.

  • Page 17: Drive Bay

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Drive Bay Figure 1-2 1. Drive bay door 2. Six disk bays 3. Disk tray pop-out button 4. Disk tray pop-out latch 5. Disk tray 6. Disk tray lock 7. Recessed disk tray latch lock release Note: If you set the tray lock, you will need to use a push-pin or paper clip to open the tray.

  • Page 18: Rear Panel

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Rear Panel Figure 1-3 1. Disk exhaust fan 2. System exhaust fan 3. Two USB ports 4. Recessed button which provides access to the diagnostic startup menu: Normal, Factory Restore (which erases all data), OS Reinstall, Tech Support remote diagnostics, Skip Volume Check, Memory Test.

  • Page 19: Choosing A Location For A Readynas Pro

    Specifications. Initial Setup Follow the instructions in the NETGEAR Installation Guide that came with your unit to install your NETGEAR® ReadyNAS™ Pro. An electronic copy of the installation guide is on the product CD, on the NETGEAR web site, and on http://readynas.com.

  • Page 20: Default Ip Address, Login Name, And Password

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Default IP Address, Login Name, and Password The default IP configuration is set to DHCP; if the unit does not get an IP address, it defaults to 192.168.168.168. The default administrator user name is admin with the default password being netgear1 (case sensitive).

  • Page 21: The Frontview Management Console

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide The FrontView Management Console The FrontView management console operates in two modes: Setup Wizard mode, and Advanced Control mode. When the unit is in its factory default state, FrontView is in Setup Wizard mode. Figure 1-5 Use the wizard to perform the initial configuration of the unit.

  • Page 22: Netgear Readynas Community

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Community NETGEAR ReadyNAS Community web site is http://readynas.com. Find previews and reviews of new features, tutorials, and information you won’t get anywhere else. Well, maybe you will, but not easily and not in one happy place like this. Do give us feedback on the ReadyNAS Community Forum and let us know if you would like to see topics not covered here.

  • Page 23: Setting Up And Managing Your Readynas Pro

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Chapter 2 Setting Up and Managing Your ReadyNAS Pro Setting up and managing the ReadyNAS Pro Network Attached Storage System Business Edition in your network is described in this chapter. This chapter contains the following sections: •...

  • Page 24: Ethernet Interfaces

    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 25 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide the setting you want. NETGEAR advises that you keep the setting in an Auto-negotiation mode otherwise. Figure 2-3 • MTU. In some network environments, changing the default MTU value can fix throughput problems. NETGEAR advises that you leave the default setting otherwise.
  • Page 26 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide • XOR: Transmit based on the default simple transmit hash policy. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance. • Broadcast: Transmit everything on all slave interfaces. This mode provides fault tolerance. • IEEE 802.3ad: Creates aggregation groups that share the same speed and duplex settings. Utilizes all interfaces in the active aggregator according to the 802.3ad specification.

  • Page 27: Global Network Settings

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Performance Settings . In this section, you can the Enable jumbo frames option allows you to optimize the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition for large data transfers such as multiple streams of video playback. Figure 2-7 Note: Use this option only if your NIC and your gigabit switch support jumbo frames.

  • Page 28: Wins

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Default Gateway The Default Gateway specifies the IP address of the system where your network traffic is routed if the destination is outside 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.

  • Page 29: Dhcp

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition 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. Figure 2-10 Select the Enable DHCP service check box if you want the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition device to act as a DHCP server.

  • Page 30: Updating The Admin Password

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Updating the Admin Password The Security tab allows you to set the administrator password, administer security, and set up the password recovery feature on the ReadyNAS. Note: The RAIDar utility includes a discovery mechanism that enables it to find any ReadyNAS on the network without needing to know its IP address.

  • Page 31: Selecting Services For Share Access

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Selecting Services for Share Access Figure 2-13 The Services screen allows you to manage various services for share access. This in effect controls the type of clients you wish to allow access to the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition. Three types of services are available: Standard File Protocols, Streaming Services, and Discovery Services.
  • Page 32 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide • AFP (Apple File Protocol). Mac OS 9 and OS X works best using this protocol as it handles an extensive character set. However, in mixed PC and Mac environments, it is advisable to use CIFS/SMB, unless enhanced character set support is necessary on the Mac.The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition supports AFP 3.1.

  • Page 33: Streaming Services

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Streaming Services The built-in streaming services on the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition allow you to stream multi- media content directly from the ReadyNAS, without the need to have your PC or Mac powered on. Figure 2-14 •...

  • Page 34: Discovery Services

    Understanding Volume Management Figure 2-16 The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition family offers two RAID volume technologies: Flex-RAID, utilizing the industry-standard RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 6; and X-RAID2, NETGEAR-patented 2-12 Setting Up and Managing Your ReadyNAS Pro v1.2, October 2008...

  • Page 35: Overview Of Raid Levels And X-Raid2

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide expandable RAID technology. Your system comes preconfigured with X-RAID2. However, you can switch between the two modes through a factory default reset process described in “Configuring RAID” on page 6-7.” Overview of RAID Levels and X-RAID2 This section provides a basic overview of RAID and X-RAID2.
  • Page 36 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide smallest disk in the RAID set multiplied by one less than the number of disks in the RAID set. For example, a four-disk RAID 5 set provides the capacity of three disks, assuming all four disks are identical in size.

  • Page 37: Volume Management For Flex-Raid

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide • X-RAID2: – One-volume technology, but supports volume expansion, either with the addition of more disks or the replacement of an existing disk with larger capacity disks. – You can start out with one disk, and add more disks as you need them or can afford them. –...
  • Page 38 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Adding a Volume After deleting the volume, Add Volume tab displays listing the available configurable space on the hard disks. All the disks are selected by default. You can elect to specify a hot spare disk if you wish.
  • Page 39 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 40: Volume Management For X-Raid2

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide The Locate option is a way to verify that a disk is correctly situated in the expected disk slot. Clicking Locate causes disk LED to blink for 15 seconds. Volume Management for X-RAID2 Most people want to either add redundancy or expand their data volume. X-RAID2 enables this without the headaches usually associated with doing so.

  • Page 41: Volume Maintenance

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide First, power down the ReadyNAS Pro, replace the first disk with the large-capacity disk, and then reboot. If your ReadyNAS supports hot-swapping, you can hot-swap the disk without powering down. The ReadyNAS Pro will detect that a new disk was put in place and resynchronizes the disk with data from the removed disk.

  • Page 42: Changing Between X-Raid2 And Flex-Raid Modes

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Changing between X-RAID2 and Flex-RAID Modes You can switch between X-RAID2 and Flex-X-RAID modes. The process involves setting the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition to the factory default and using RAIDar to configure the volume during a 10-minute delay window during boot.
  • Page 43 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition 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 44: Setting Up Printers

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Setting Up Printers The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition 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.

  • Page 45: Managing Print Queues

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide discover and set up the print queue. Bonjour is built into OS X and can be installed on Windows computers (Bonjour for Windows is available for download from the Apple website at http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/). Managing Print Queues From time to time, printers might run out of ink or paper, or simply jam up, forcing you to deal with the print jobs stuck in a queue.

  • Page 46: Adjusting System Settings

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Adjusting System Settings Figure 2-28 System settings include clock, alert, performance, language, firmware update, configuration backup/restore, power, and shutdown settings. Clock, System Time, and NTP Options 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 47: Alerts, Alert Contacts, Alert Settings, Snmp, And Smtp

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Alerts, Alert Contacts, Alert Settings, SNMP, and SMTP Figure 2-29 In the event of a device or an enclosure failure, a quota violation, low-disk space warning, and other system events requiring your attention, e-mail alerts are sent. The Alerts screen is accessed by selecting System >...
  • Page 48 5. Click Apply to save your settings. When you have saved the SNMP settings on the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition, you can import the NETGEAR SNMP MIB to your SNMP client application. The NETGEAR MIB can be 2-26 Setting Up and Managing Your ReadyNAS Pro...

  • Page 49: Language Settings

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide obtained from the included Installation CD or downloaded from the NETGEAR Support site at http://www.netgear.com/support. SMTP. The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition device has a built-in e-mail message transfer agent (MTA) that is set up to send alert e-mail messages from the device. Some corporate environments, however, might have a firewall that blocks untrusted MTAs from sending out messages.

  • Page 50: Updating Readynas Pro Business Edition

    The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition device offers the option of upgrading the operating firmware either automatically using the Remote Update option or by manually loading an update image downloaded from the NETGEAR Support website. 2-28 Setting Up and Managing Your ReadyNAS Pro...
  • Page 51 The preferred and quicker method if the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition 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 2-35 If you wish to continue, click Perform System Update.
  • Page 52 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition by selecting the Local update tab. The update file can be a RAIDiator firmware image or an add-on package. Figure 2-37 Click Browse to select the update file and then click Upload and verify image. The process takes several minutes after which you are requested to reboot the system and proceed with the upgrade.

  • Page 53: Configuration Backup

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Restoring the Factory Default Settings The Factory Default tab allows you to reset the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition device back to its factory default state. Choose this option carefully as All Data Will Be Lost unless you back up any data that you wish to keep prior to clicking Perform Factory Default.
  • Page 54 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Click Backup then Select which category of configuration files to backup, then click the “Download configuration archive” button to download a zip archive of the requested files. Tip: Use the configuration backup to save your configuration so that if you ever have to reset the unit to its factory default settings, you can simply restore all your settings from the configuration backup.

  • Page 55: Managing User Access

    Chapter 3 Managing User Access Setting up and managing the ReadyNAS Pro Network Attached Storage System Business Edition in your network is described in this chapter. This chapter contains the following sections: • “Understanding Disk Share Security Access Modes • “Setting Up User and Group Accounts •...

  • Page 56: Understanding Disk Share Security Access Modes

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Understanding Disk Share Security Access Modes The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition offers User and Domain security access options. Figure 3-1 Select the most appropriate option based on the required level of security and your current network authentication scheme.

  • Page 57: User Security Mode

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide device itself. Also, in this security mode, each domain/ADS user is automatically set up with a private home share on the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition. Note: The FrontView management system slows down in proportion to the number of users in the domain.

  • Page 58: Domain Security Mode

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide • User names you wish to create (plus e-mail addresses if you will be setting disk quotas) • Amount of disk space you want to allocate to users and groups (optional) To change or set a workgroup name: 1.

  • Page 59: 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 Pro Business Edition in a domain environment with more than 10,000 users at this time.
  • Page 60 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide access. For instance, you can have user Joe in the Marketing group also belong to the Sales group so Joe can access shares restricted to only the 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.
  • Page 61 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide name2,gid2,quota2,member21:member22:member23 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. •...
  • Page 62 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 2. Click the Add User tab to add a new user. You can add up to five users at a time. For each user, add the following information: • User name, • E-mail address •...

  • Page 63: Changing User Passwords

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide • 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): fred,hello123 In this example, user fred has a password set to hello123, belongs to the default group, receives no e-mail notification, has a UID assigned automatically, and has a default quota.

  • Page 64: Managing Your Shares

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Users can use the Web browser and their existing password to log in to https://<ip_addr>/ to access the Web share listing page. Then select the Password tab, and follow the prompts to set a new password Figure 3-10 In Share and Domain security mode, the Password tab does not appear.

  • Page 65: Adding Shares

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 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. Enter the share name and description. Figure 3-12 Note: Enabling Public Access means the Guest account has access to the share.
  • Page 66 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide If you want to delete a share, select the check box on the far right of the share listing and click Delete. The columns to the left of the Delete check box represent the services that are currently available. The access icons in those columns summarize the status of the service and the access rights to the share for each of the services.
  • Page 67 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Setting Share Access Access the CIFS Share Access Restrictions screen by clicking on the file system icon. Figure 3-15 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.
  • Page 68 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide • Read-only groups: marketing, finance • Write-enabled users: fred • Write-enabled groups: engr If you wish to guests access to this share, check the Allow guest access checkbox. Share Display Option. Restricting access to a share does not prevent users from seeing the share in the browse list.
  • Page 69 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure 3-17 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 section offers options for setting the default permission of new files and folders created through CIFS.

  • Page 70: Web Browser

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure 3-19 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 71 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Log in with a valid user name and password. Figure 3-21 If the Share access is read-only, only the file manager displays. Figure 3-22 Note: Files created under the Web file manager can be deleted only under this file manager.

  • Page 72: Ftp/Ftps

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure 3-23 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 73: Rsync

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition 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 74: Networked Dvd Players And Upnp Av Media Adapters

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition 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 75: Remote Ftp Access

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Remote FTP Access 1. Go to Services > Standard File Protocols and enable FTP. Figure 3-27 • Port: The TCP/IP port that the FTP service will be using. The default is 21, this port will need to be forwarded through the router.

  • Page 76: Remote Http Access

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 2. Configure the FTP share access options. Figure 3-28 Change the Share Access Restrictions to allow FTP access to the share according to the user permissions you require. Remote HTTP Access 1. Go to Services > Standard File Protocols and enable FTP. Figure 3-29 Note: HTTPS cannot be disabled - Frontview requires it.
  • Page 77 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide • HTTP – Redirect default web access to this share: Advanced configuration option allowing hosting of user created HTTP web page on the ReadyNAS. – Login authentication on this share: Configures the above mentioned share for whether or not authentication is required if users are browsing to the user created web content •...
  • Page 78 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Change the Share Access Restrictions to allow HTTP access to the share according to the user permissions you require. 3. Enable WebDAV support: WebDAV is an HTTP connection method that can allow drag and drop file transfers similar to what users may experience with their standard Windows or Mac OSX computer.

  • Page 79: Securing Your Data

    Chapter 4 Securing Your Data This chapter explains how to back up the data from your ReadyNAS. • “Configuring Backup Jobs • “Snapshots • “Backing Up the ReadyNAS to a USB Drive Configuring Backup Jobs The Backup Manager integrated with the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition allows the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition to act as a powerful backup appliance.
  • Page 80 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 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 Pro Business Edition. A USB device appears as a share, so if you want to back up a USB device, select a share name.
  • Page 81 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Following are some examples: • Examples of an 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: //myserver/myshare //myserver/myshare/myfolder //192.168.0.101/myshare/myfolder • Examples of an NFS path: myserver:/mypath 192.168.0.101:/mypath/myfolder •...
  • Page 82 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 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 selected a remote backup source, you need to select a public or a private home share on the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition (either the source or destination must be local to the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition).
  • Page 83 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure 4-3 Step 4 – Choose Backup Options In this last step, you can set up how you want backups to be performed. To set up a backup schedule: 1. Schedule a full backup. Select when you want full backups to be performed. You can elect to do this just the first time, every week, every 2 weeks, every 3 weeks, every 4 weeks, or every time this backup job is invoked.

  • Page 84: Viewing The Backup Schedule

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 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.

  • Page 85: Programming The Backup Button

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide To manage your backup jobs: 1. Click the Job number icon to modify the selected backup job. 2. Enable or disable job scheduling by selecting/clearing the Enable check box. Disabling the job does not delete the job, but removes it from the automatic scheduling queue. 3.

  • Page 86: Viewing The Backup Log

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Viewing the Backup Log You can view the backup log while the job is in progress or after it has finished. Figure 4-6 The log format might differ depending on the backup source and destination type that was selected, but you can see when the job was started and finished, and whether it was completed successfully or with errors.
  • Page 87 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Taking and Scheduling Snapshots To take or schedule a snapshot: 1. Click the Snapshot tab The Snapshot screen will display. 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.
  • Page 88 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure 4-8 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.
  • Page 89 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Disk space utilization field on the Volume screen shows how much space has been reserved for snapshots. Figure 4-10 After the snapshot is taken, if changes on the volume exceed this reserved space, the snapshot is invalidated and can no longer be used.

  • Page 90: Backing Up The Readynas To A Usb Drive

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Resizing the snapshot space will occur offline and can take a while depending on your data volume size and the number of files in your volume. Expanding the snapshot space reduces your data volume size, and reducing the snapshot space expands it. Note: Because of the way snapshots work, you will encounter a drop in write performance when a snapshot is active.

  • Page 91: Optimizing Performance

    • NETGEAR recommends that you select the Disable 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 92: Adding A Ups For Performance

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide • Select Enable disk write cache if you want to allow disk write requests to be acknowledged by the disk before data is written out to the platter. This can give a big boost to write performance, with a drawback that there is a slight chance that unwritten data in the write cache will be lost in the event of a power failure.

  • Page 93: Power Management

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Make sure to adjust the optimization settings in the Performance screen if you wish to take advantage of the available options. Power Management The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition offers disk spin-down, power timer (time off/time on), UPS event, and wake-on-LAN power management options to reduce system power consumption, both while the system is in use and when it is not in use.

  • Page 94: Power Timer

    You can power-on this device remotely by sending it a "WOL Magic Packet" if the WOL service is enabled. 1. Please refer to the Release Notes for RAIDiator 4 on the NETGEAR Support site for more information. Optimizing Performance v1.2, October 2008...

  • Page 95: Managing Levels Of Service

    Chapter 6 Managing Levels of Service System status, alerts, replacing failed disks, scheduling stuff ... • “Viewing System Status • “Replacing a Failed Disk • “Using the System Diagnostic Menu Viewing System Status The Status menu contains links to the Health screen and Logs screen that provide system status information.

  • Page 96: Logs

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure 6-2 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 6-3 The Download All Logs link is available in case you need to analyze low-level log information.

  • Page 97: Replacing A Failed Disk

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Replacing a Failed Disk Note: Be sure to check the Hardware Compatability list on the NETGEAR support site for a list of disks that have been qualified for the ReadyNAS Pro to assure that you use a suitable disk.
  • Page 98 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 2. Press the button under the failed disk. The latch pops out. Figure 6-5 3. Pull out the disk tray and remove the screws. Figure 6-6 Managing Levels of Service v1.2, October 2008...

  • Page 99: Resynchronizing The Volume

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 4. If you want to prevent easy removal of the disk from the tray, set the tray lock: up is locked; down is unlocked.. Figure 6-7 Note: If you set the tray lock, you will need to use a push-pin or paper clip to open the tray.

  • Page 100: Use The Os Reinstall Option To Re-Install The Firmware

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 1. Normal: Bypass the diagnostic menu and perform a normal boot. 2. Factory Default: Reset the ReadyNAS back to factory default state, erasing all data on the disks. This option can be used to change between X-RAID2 and Flex-RAID mode. Warning: This process reinstalls the firmware and resets all disk configurations, wiping out any data you might have on the NAS.

  • Page 101: Configuring Raid

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide 4. Press the recessed reset button at the back to confirm the menu selection and proceed to that option. The system will boot reset to the fatory default settings. Configuring RAID You can switch between the X-RAID2 Expandable Volume mode and the RAID 0/1/5/6 Flexible Volume mode only if you want to change the default configuration.

  • Page 102: Shutdown

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Shutdown The Shutdown Options screen offers the option to either power off or reboot the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition device. You also have the option of performing either a full file system check or a quota check on the next boot.

  • Page 103: Share Access From Mac And Linux Systems

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Appendix A Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems This appendix presents examples of how shares on the ReadyNAS device can be accessed by the various MAC operating systems. MAC OS X To access the same share over AFP with OS X, select Network from the Finder Go > Network menu.

  • Page 104: Afp Over Bonjour

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition 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 A-2 Open the My Network folder to display the ReadyNAS hostname. Figure A-3 Enter the user name and password you wish to use to connect to the ReadyNAS.

  • Page 105: Afp Over Appletalk

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure A-4 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 106 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure A-6 Select Guest and click Connect. Then, select the share you want to connect to and click OK. Figure A-7 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 107: Mac

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition 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 A-8 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 108 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Figure A-10 You should see the same files in the share that you do in Windows Explorer. Figure A-11 Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems v1.2, October 2008...

  • Page 109: Accessing Shares From Linux/Unix

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Accessing Shares from Linux/Unix To access this share from a Linux or Unix client where backup is the share name, you will need to mount the share over NFS by entering: mount <ipaddr>:/<backup /backup> Running the ls command in the mounted path displays the share content.
  • Page 110 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems v1.2, October 2008...

  • Page 111: Appendix B Related Documents

    ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Appendix B Related Documents This appendix provides links to reference documents you can use to gain a more complete understanding of the technologies used in your NETGEAR product. Document Link Internet Networking and TCP/IP ttp://documentation.netgear.com/reference/enu/tcpip/index.htm...
  • Page 112 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Related Documents v1.2, October 2008...
  • Page 113 Index Numerics programming 4-7 Backup Jobs 1100 backup adding new 4-1 USB 4-12 configuring 4-1 editing 4-8 options 4-5 scheduling 4-4, 4-6 accessing shares Backup Log 4-8 FTP/FTPS 3-18 Linux/Unix A-7 Backup Manager 4-1 MAC OS X A-1 Bonjour over MAC OS 9 A-5 2-12 Rsync 3-19 AFP A-2...
  • Page 114 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide settings 2-2 accounts, setting up 3-5 Digital Living Network. See DLNA. groups accounts, creating 3-3 Discovery Services 2-9 managing 3-5 UPnP 2-12 discovery services Bonjour 2-12 Disk Spin-Down 5-3 health DLNA 2-11 status of ReadyNAS 6-1 DNS Settings 2-6 Home Media Streaming Server 2-11 domain...
  • Page 115 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Logs 6-2 Power Timer 5-4 print queues managing 2-23 Printers MAC address setting up 2-22 host name use 2-5 USB 2-22 MAC OS 9 Printing accessing shares A-5 CIFS/SMB 2-22 MAC OS X IPP 2-22 accessing shares A-1 MTU 2-3 multi-media 2-11...
  • Page 116 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide fine-tuning 3-11 updating ReadyNAS 2-28 managing 3-10 UPnP 2-12 selecting services 2-9 UPnP AV 2-11 setting access in Domain Mode 3-13 UPnP AV Media Adapters Shutdown 6-8 networked 3-20 SlimServer 2-11 SMART+Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting configuration of 5-4 Technology.
  • Page 117 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide workgroup name 3-3 setup 3-4 X-RAID 2-15 adding a second disk 2-18 adding more disks 2-18 RAID Level X 2-14 redundancy overhead 1-3 using hot-swap trays 2-18 volume management 2-18 Index-5 v1.2, October 2008...
  • Page 118 ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide Index-6 v1.2, October 2008...
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