User guide

Iomega StorCenter px12-400r User Guide

Backing up Your Device

Copy Jobs

Transferring Content to and from Your Iomega StorCenter px12-400r with Copy Jobs

You can transfer content to and from your px12-400r using the Copy Jobs feature. Copy Jobs copies

files from one storage device to another, either by a set schedule or immediately by the user. An

example of a Copy Job scenario is if you keep pictures from your digital camera on a separate USB

drive, but you also want to maintain a backup of these pictures on your px12-400r. Using Copy Jobs,

you can create a task that copies your photos on the USB drive to a Share on your px12-400r, and you

can set that task to a schedule so the images automatically copy at a specific time. This ensures that

your photos are always safely backed up to your px12-400r in the event your USB device ever fails or

is lost.

Note: While a Copy Job copies all data from one NAS device to another, it does not copy permissions

or access rights from one NAS device to another.

All saved Copy Jobs display on the Copy Jobs page. From there, you can manually start and stop a

Copy Job, view Copy Job information, modify a Copy Job, check its last run status, and, if

applicable, view when the Copy Job is next scheduled to run.

When defining a Copy Job, you can copy data from or to any of the following:

 Any NAS device automatically discovered on the same subnet as your px12-400r

 Any NAS device that you manually add to the subnet using the Iomega Storage Manager

 Any external storage device, such as a USB device, connected to your px12-400r

 A Windows computer that is automatically discovered on the same subnet as your px12-400r

When selecting what data to copy on the source storage device, you can choose a specific folder or

all folders. You can also copy from a folder on an external storage device mounted to your px12-

400r.

When selecting the destination device, you can copy files to the top-level folder on the destination

device (the default option), or to an existing folder on this device, which adds the copied files into

folders.

You can manually start or stop a Copy Job by clicking start or stop buttons on the Copy Jobs page.

You can schedule a Copy Job to run automatically at a set day and time.

Copy Jobs Limitations

 Copy Jobs does not establish a continuous replication or mirroring relationship between the

source and destination devices. You should not set up Copy Jobs for disaster recovery.

 Copy Jobs does not support transferring content from iSCSI drives.