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freeStor Mini 210/310
2.5"/3.5" USB 2.0 Enclosure with One-Touch
System Backup
USER'S MANUAL
P/N: DS-210UB/DS-310UB
Rev. 1.2

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  • Page 1 Mini 210/310 2.5"/3.5" USB 2.0 Enclosure with One-Touch System Backup USER’S MANUAL P/N: DS-210UB/DS-310UB Rev. 1.2...
  • Page 2 © Copyright 2006, freeStor Mini, freeStor SBC, and the freedom9 company logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Freedom9 Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced, or translated into another language without express prior to written consent of Freedom9 Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    TANDARD DITION TO ROFESSIONAL ... 21 ... 29 ... 32 ... 35 ... 39 UTTON ... 42 ACKUP USB B ... 43 ... 47 RIVE FOR YSTEM ESTORE CD ... 51 ECOVERY ... 51 ILES AND IRECTORIES 210 ... 3 310 ...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    CD-ROM or DVD-ROM • USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 port - If you are using a freeStor Mini 210, you may need 2 USB ports • BIOS that supports booting up from a USB device is required for remote boot function.

  • Page 5: Getting Started

    3. When using the freeStor Mini 310, it is recommended that the unit be placed in the vertical stand on a stable surface. 4. Connect the USB cable to a USB port on your PC or notebook instead of to a USB hub. If there are any problems, try a different USB port.

  • Page 6: Hardware Installation

    2 Hardware Installation 2.1 Installing a Hard Drive for freeStor Mini 210 Follow these instructions to install a hard drive into the freeStor Mini 210: 1. Remove the freeStor Mini 210 hard drive enclosure from the package. 2. Unscrew the two screws on the connector end of the enclosure (Figure 1). 3.

  • Page 7: Installing A Hard Drive For Freestor Mini 310

    (Figure 4). 6. Screw both screws back into the enclosure (Figure 1). 7. Connect one end of the included USB cable to the freeStor Mini 210, and connect the other end to a USB port on your computer (Figure 5).
  • Page 8 3. Remove the end cover and pull the hard drive tray out of the enclosure (Figure 7). 4. Set the jumpers on the hard drive to “Master” mode (refer to the documentation of your hard drive for details).Connect the power cable from the tray to the hard drive. 5.

  • Page 9: Disconnecting The Freestor Mini 210/310

    9. Connect one end of the included USB cable to the freeStor Mini 310, and connect the other end to a USB port on your computer. Then connect the power cord from the unit to a power outlet (Figure 12).

  • Page 10: Software Installation

    freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 3 Software Installation 3.1 Installing freeStor SBC To install the freeStor SBC system backup software, follow the steps below. Note that if you already have a previous version of freeStor SBC running on your system, refer to the “Upgrading freeStor SBC”...
  • Page 11 5. If you agree to the License Agreement on the next screen (Figure 14), click “Yes” to proceed. If you do not agree to the License Agreement, you cannot install the software. 6. On the next screen (Figure 15), you can select which folder to install the software to by clicking the “Browse…”...
  • Page 12 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual Figure 15: Installation Folder 7. The next screen (Figure 16) displays an option of which user to install the software for. The current version of freeStor SBC only supports the Administrator user and no other users. Click “Next”...
  • Page 13 8. The next screen (Figure 17) displays a summary of the selected installation parameters. After confirming that the settings are correct, click “Next” to proceed with the installation. If you wish to change a setting, click “Back”. 9. While the wizard installs the software on your computer, a progress bar shows how far the installation has progressed (Figure 18).

  • Page 14: Performing An Initial Backup

    11. If you are not asked to reboot, you can select to view the README file and/or launch freeStor SBC immediately (Figure 19). Click “Finish” to close the installation wizard. 12. To start freeStor SBC from Windows, click on the Start Menu, then Programs, then freedom9 freeStor SBC folder, then the freedom9 freeStor SBC icon (Figure 20).
  • Page 15 5. In the Prepare Backup Disk screen (Figure 23) select “Re-arrange Partition Table”. Click “Next”. Warning: Selecting “Re-arrange Partition Table” will cause all of the data on the freeStor Mini 210/310 to be erased. in the toolbar in the main window. Figure 21: Select External USB Drive Figure 22: Partition Wizard...
  • Page 16 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual Figure 23: Prepare Backup Disk 6. When the window appears to ask for a confirmation, click “Yes” (Figure 24). Figure 24: Partition Confirmation...
  • Page 17 7. The next screen (Figure 25) shows the size of the partitions that will be created. The column on the left shows the space used, total space, and file system of the partitions on the local drive. The second column shows the size of the partition that will be created to start full backups, which is the same size as the local partition.
  • Page 18 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual Figure 27: Confirm Hard Drive Partition 9. The progress is displayed on the next screen (Figure 28). Figure 28: Partition Progress 10. Once the hard drive has been partitioned, click “OK” (Figure 29). Figure 29: Partition Warning...
  • Page 19 11. Once the window closes, click “Finish” to continue with the backup (Figure 30). Figure 30: Partition Completed 12. On the next screen (Figure 31), select the drive(s) to back up by clicking the box to the left of the drive. Click “Next”. Figure 31: Select Backup Drives...
  • Page 20 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 13. The next screen (Figure 32) shows a summary of tasks to be performed. Click “Start” to begin the backup. Figure 32: Full Backup Summary 14. The next screen (Figure 33) shows the backup progress. Figure 33: Full Backup Progress...

  • Page 21: Reinstalling Freestor Sbc

    15. After the backup has been completed, click “Close” in the window that appears (Figure 34) to close the window. Figure 34: Full Backup Report 16. Click “Finish” to complete the backup (Figure 35). Figure 35: Full Backup Completed 17. You have now completed your first backup. 3.3 Reinstalling freeStor SBC If you run the setup file for a new version of freeStor SBC with a previous version already installed, the InstallShield Wizard will prompt you to remove the old version from you computer...

  • Page 22: Upgrading From Standard Edition To Professional Edition

    freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual Figure 36: Removing Previous Version 3.4 Upgrading from Standard Edition to Professional Edition To upgrade to freeStor SBC Profession Edition, go to the Upgrade to Pro Edition menu, and select “Upgrade now…”. Follow the instructions listed to perform the upgrade (Figure 37). Figure 37: Upgrade Screen Certain features of the freeStor SBC software described in this manual are only available with the Professional Edition.

  • Page 23: Using Freestor Sbc

    4 Using freeStor SBC 4.1 Main Window After starting freeStor SBC, the main window will be displayed (Figure 38). The main window allows you to see the status of your computer’s and the freeStor Mini 210/310’s drives at a glance and perform a backup or restore with the click of a button. The icons at the top of the screen perform the following functions (from left to right): •...

  • Page 24: Rescan Disk(S)

    Drive O: 130 GB for standard file sharing and backup As shown above, the freeStor Mini 210/310 can also be used as a standard external USB hard drive by creating a partition used specifically for file storage and not system backup (see...

  • Page 25: Full Backup

    2. In the Backup Drive window (Figure 39), select the local drive(s) that you would like to back up in the top window, and select the freeStor 210/310 drive to use under Destination Disk. Click “Next”. Figure 39: Select External USB Drive...
  • Page 26 3. If this is the first time a backup is being performed on this drive, a warning will appear to indicate that no partitions are available on the drive (Figure 40). Click “OK” to continue to the Prepare Backup Disk wizard. Otherwise, skip to step 11. 4.
  • Page 27 5. If you chose to re-arrange the partition table, freeStor SBC will delete all of the data on the freeStor Mini 210/310. Click ”Yes” to partition the external hard drive on the warning that appears (Figure 42). 6. The next screen (Figure 43) shows the recommended size of the partitions to be created. The column on the left shows the space used, total space, and file system of the partitions on the local drive.
  • Page 28 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 7. The next screen (Figure 44) shows a summary of the actions to be performed. Click “Start” to start the partitioning process, then “Yes” in the warning window (Figure 45) to confirm. Figure 44: Partition Summary Figure 45: Confirm Hard Drive Partition...
  • Page 29 8. The progress is displayed on the next screen (Figure 46). Figure 46: Partition Progress 9. Once the hard drive has been partitioned, click “OK” (Figure 47). Figure 47: Partition Warning...
  • Page 30 10. Once the window closes, click “Finish” to continue with the backup (Figure 48). 11. On the next screen (Figure 49), select the drive(s) to back up and select the backup mode. If this is your first time performing a backup or if you are using freeStor SBC Standard Edition, only Full backup mode will be available.
  • Page 31 12. The next screen (Figure 50) shows a summary of tasks to be performed. Click “Start” to begin the backup. Figure 50: Full Backup Summary 13. The next screen (Figure 51) shows the backup progress. Figure 51: Full Backup Progress...

  • Page 32: Incremental Backup

    14. After the backup has been completed, click “Close” in the window that appears (Figure 52) to close the window. Clicking on “More Details” opens a text file with the detailed log of the backup. 15. Click “Finish” to complete the backup (Figure 53). 4.3.2 Incremental Backup When you perform an incremental backup, only the files and folders which have changed since the last backup are backed up, which results in faster backups and less space taken up.
  • Page 33 To perform an incremental backup: 1. Click the Backup Drive button in the toolbar on the main window, or select “Backup Drive” under the Drive menu, or right-click the freeStor SBC icon in the Taskbar and select “Backup Drive”. 2. In the Backup Drive screen (Figure 39), select the local partition(s) that you would like to back up in the top window, and select the freeStor 210/310 drive to use under Destination Disk.
  • Page 34 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 5. The next screen (Figure 55) shows a summary of the actions to be performed. Click “Start” button to begin the incremental backup. Figure 55: Incremental Backup Summary 6. The next screen displays the backup progress (Figure 56). Figure 56: Incremental Backup Progress...

  • Page 35: Synthetic Backup

    7. After the backup has been completed, click “Close” in the window that appears (Figure 57) to close the window. Clicking on “More Details” opens a text file with the detailed log of the backup. 8. Click “Finish” to complete the incremental backup (Figure 58). Figure 58: Incremental Backup Completed 4.3.3 Synthetic Backup A Synthetic Backup merges data from old incremental backups into the full backup, freeing up...
  • Page 36 Wednesday, and then perform a Synthetic backup of Tuesday’s incremental backup into the full backup, then the Full Backup will consist of Tuesday’s data, and you will no longer be able to revert to Monday’s backup. Professional Edition. To perform a synthetic backup: 1.
  • Page 37 3. The next window (Figure 60) shows a summary of the actions to be performed. Click “Start” button to begin the synthetic backup. Figure 60: Synthetic Backup Summary 4. The window displays the backup progress as the backup is running (Figure 61). Figure 61: Synthetic Backup Progress...

  • Page 38: Scheduled Backups

    5. After the backup has been completed, click “Close” in the window that appears (Figure 62) to close the window. Clicking on “More Details” opens a text file with the detailed log of the backup. 6. Click “Finish” to complete the backup (Figure 63). 4.4 Scheduled Backups Backups can be scheduled to run automatically on a regular basis or during certain events such as when the computer starts up or is idling.
  • Page 39 there is not enough room to perform an incremental backup, a synthetic backup will be performed if set to do so (see Configuration section for details). Otherwise, the scheduled backup will be aborted. 1. Select “New” under the Schedule menu or right-click “Schedule” in the menu in the left window and select “New”.
  • Page 40 3. On the next window (Figure 65), click “New”. 4. Under Schedule Task, select when these backups will run. The available options are listed below. Click the “Advanced” button for more advanced methods of defining the schedule. Daily: Select the number of days between backups and the time of day to perform a backup.

  • Page 41: Configuration

    OTB backup is performed. Note: This configuration is only for OTB Backup and Scheduled Backup. Also, while performing a system restore after booting from the USB drive, you can set whether Figure 66: Set Account Information Figure 67: Backup Schedule Completed...

  • Page 42: One Touch Backup Button

    freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual the system will restart automatically after the restore is completed from this menu. Set Synthetic Backup Policy: Allows you to set which drives will automatically perform a synthetic backup when the incremental backup partition becomes full (Figure 68). If the synthetic backup policy is set to manual backup, then any incremental backups will fail after the drive becomes full.
  • Page 43 OTB for freeStor Mini 310 Notes: To perform a one touch backup, the following conditions must be met: • A full backup must have been completed using the freeStor SBC software. • The computer must be on. • freeStor SBC must be running (by default, freeStor SBC starts automatically when the user logs into Windows).

  • Page 44: Backup Log

    freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 4.7 Backup Log To view the backup log, click “Log” in the left pane. The list of backup log files are displayed in the pane on the right (Figure 71). Figure 71: Backup Log List To view the detailed information for a specific backup log file, double-click on the item in the right pane.

  • Page 45: Backup History

    If you want to delete all of the backup log files, right-click on “Log”, then select “Delete All Log Files”. (Figure 73). Figure 73: Delete Backup Log Files 4.8 Backup History You can view the history of backups performed by freeStor SBC by expanding the “History” item in the left menu, then select the partition to view the history for (Figure 74).

  • Page 46: System Restore Using Usb Boot

    There are two ways of performing a system restore. The first method is called USB Boot, and it allows you to use your computer using the freeStor Mini 210/310 as if it was an internal hard drive, allowing you to continue to work without any downtime, and then recover the hard drive when it is convenient for you.
  • Page 47 3. Change the boot order on your computer to boot from the external USB hard drive first (Figure 76). The name and menu options vary for each computer. Figure 76: Setting First Boot Device to USB-HDD 4. Exit and save the BIOS (Figure 77).
  • Page 48 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 8. Select the drive(s) you would like to restore (Figure 78). Figure 78: Select Restore Drives 9. Select the version of the backup you wish to restore from based on the backup date (Figure 79). Figure 79: Select Restore Version...
  • Page 49 10. If the hard drive you are restoring to isn’t formatted or properly partitioned, freeStor SBC will create the partitions and format it automatically (see the section “Preparation of Drive for System Restore” for detailed instructions). 11. Select the drives to restore to (Figure 80). Click “Next”. 12.

  • Page 50: Preparation Of Drive For System Restore

    13. After the restore has been completed, click “Close” in the window that appears (Figure 82) to close the window. Clicking on “More Details” opens a text file with the detailed log of the restore. 14. Finally, click “Finish” to complete recovery process. Note: If you select the wrong version (date) to restore, you can perform the restore again with the correct version.
  • Page 51 2. Select the internal disk to format and partition in preparation for drive restoration (Figure 84). Figure 84: Internal Disk Selection 3. Select the source drive(s) in order to determine the size of the partitions (Figure 85). Figure 85: Select Source Drives...
  • Page 52 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 4. On the next screen (Figure 86), click “Start” to begin the restoration. Figure 86: Format Disk Summary 5. On the next prompt (Figure 87), click “Yes” to continue. Figure 87: Format Warning...
  • Page 53 6. The screen displays the status of the preparation (Figure 88) Figure 88: Format Disk Progress 7. Once the preparations are completed, click “OK” (Figure 89). Figure 89: Finishing hard drives preparation...

  • Page 54: System Restore Using Recovery Cd

    4. Windows will start normally, and then the freeStor SBC logo will be displayed on the screen. 5. When freeStor SBC starts, follow the instructions starting from step 7 under the section “System Restore using USB Boot” to restore your data. 4.9.4 Restoring Individual Files and Directories freeStor SBC allows you to restore individual files and directories from full or incremental backups.
  • Page 55 to restore from (Figure 91). Figure 91: File and Directory Restore Wizard 3. Select the files and/or directories that you want to restore, then click “Next” (Figure 92). Figure 92: File and Directory Restore Selection...
  • Page 56 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 4. On the next screen (Figure 93), confirm that the files to restore are correct. Any files listed in red are system files (Figure 94). Click “Next” to proceed. Figure 93: File and Directory Restore Confirmation Figure 94: Highlighted System Files...
  • Page 57 5. If you attempt to restore any system files, a warning will be displayed (Figure 95) stating that continuing with the restore might cause the operating system to become unstable. If you would like to proceed with the restore, click “Yes”. Otherwise, click “No” and change the files you would like to restore.
  • Page 58 7. The screen displays the backup progress as the backup is running (Figure 97). Figure 97: File and Directory Restore Progress 8. After the restore has been completed, click “Close” in the window that appears (Figure 98) to close the window. Clicking on “More Details” opens a text file with the detailed log of the restore.
  • Page 59 1. Click “Finish” to complete Individual File and Directory recovery (Figure 99). Figure 99: File and Directory Restore Completed...

  • Page 60: Appendix A: Creating Partitions Under Windows

    Appendix A: Creating Partitions under Windows The following instructions show you how to create partitions on the freeStor Mini 210/310 manually using Windows XP. These partitions can be used for both backup and general file sharing. For other operating systems, consult the user manual for that operating system. 1.
  • Page 61 4. Right-click on the section and select “New Partition” (Figure 102). Figure 102: New Partition 5. In the New Partition Wizard (Figure 103), click “Next” Figure 103: New Partition Wizard...
  • Page 62 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 6. Select “Extended partition” and click “Next” (Figure 104). Figure 104: Select Extended Partition 7. Enter the size of this partition and click “Next” (Figure 105). Figure 105: Specify Partition Size...
  • Page 63 8. Click “Finish”. (Figure 106). Figure 106: Partition Creation Completed 9. A new partition with free space in the bottom-right pane will not be displayed (Figure 107). Right-click on this area and select “New Logical Drive”. Figure 107: New Logical Drive...
  • Page 64 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 10. When the New Partition Wizard opens again (Figure 108), click “Next”. Figure 108: New Partition Wizard for Logical Drive 11. Select “Logical drive” and click “Next” (Figure 109). Figure 109: Select Logical Drive...
  • Page 65 12. Select the size of this logical partition and click “Next” (Figure 110). Figure 110: Specify Logical Partition Size 13. Select a hard drive letter to assign the new partition and click “Next” (Figure 111). Figure 111: Drive Letter Assignment...
  • Page 66 freeStor Mini 210/310 User’s Manual 14. You can choose to format the partition now by selecting the option on the next screen (Figure 112). Select the desired parameters for the new partition, and click “Next”. Figure 112: Format Partition 15. Click “Finish” (Figure 113). Figure 113: Partition Creation Finished...
  • Page 67 16. The new partition will be shown in light blue in the bottom-right pane of the Computer Management screen (Figure 114). Figure 114: New Partition Created...

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