User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Setting up Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Setup Overview
- Set up my px6-300d Network Storage if it's not discovered
- Setup Page
- Network Connection
- Connecting the px6-300d
- Naming Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Configuring Your px6-300d Network Storage to Use Active Directory
- Customizing the Access to Features on Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Obtaining Alerts About Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Tracing Events on Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Obtaining System Status for Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Using Your px6-300d Network Storage in Various Time Zones
- Setting the Display Language for Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Printing Documents
- Setting up Personal Cloud, Security, and File Sharing
- Sharing Files
- Sharing Overview
- Shares
- Using Protocols to Share Files
- What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files?
- AFP File Sharing for Macs
- Bluetooth File Sharing
- FTP File Sharing
- NFS File Sharing
- rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers
- TFTP
- Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool
- Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https)
- WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS
- Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System
- Windows File Sharing
- Sharing Content through the Home Page
- Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once
- Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview
- Managing Your Content
- Transferring Content to and from Your px6-300d Network Storage with Copy Jobs
- Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device
- One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device
- iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN)
- Storage Pool Management
- Drive Management
- Backing up and Restoring Your Content
- Securing Your px6-300d Network Storage and Contents
- Remote Access: Accessing Your px6-300d Network Storage From Anywhere in the W...
- Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the ...
- What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ?
- Is My Content Secure?
- LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Setup Overview
- Creating LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud
- Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud
- Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud
- Sharing Content Using Social Media
- Media Management
- Adding Applications to Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Upgrading Your px6-300d Network Storage
- Backing up and Recovering Your px6-300d Network Storage Settings
- Hardware Management
- Additional Support
- Legal
- Safety Information
- Open Source
- Warranty Information
- Regulatory Information
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement
- Canadian Verification
- European Union - Compliance to the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive
- Important WEEE Information
- European Union RoHS
- India RoHS
- Lithium Battery – California Perchlorate Information
- Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice
- Recycling and environmental information
- Export classification notice
- Copyright and Trademark Information
Backing up to and Restoring from Your px6-300d Network
Storage
Backing up Macs with Time Machine
You can use Time Machine to back up a Mac client computer to the px6-300d network storage device.
Follow the instructions below to set up Time Machine backups to your px6-300d:
1. Connect your Mac to your px6-300d using Apple File Protocol (AFP). You can do this using
LenovoEMC Storage Manager for Mac or Bonjour.
2. Mount the Backup Share from the px6-300d network device.
If you want to create a new Share for Time Machine backups, you can do so using the px6-300d
Management Console. Mount the Share you want to use before proceeding to the next step.
3. Select System Preferences... from the Apple Menu.
4. Select Time Machine (listed under System).
5. Click ON to enable Time Machine.
6. From the list of available drives, choose the desired Share on your px6-300d, then click Use for
Backup.
7. Time Machine will automatically create the sparsebundle image under the selected Share and
begin backing up your computer to your network storage device. After the initial backup, Time
Machine backs up files every hour.
Time Machine uses a single destination drive for backups. If you have previously set up another
drive for Time Machine backups and want to change to use the px6-300d network device, click
Select Disk, then choose the desired Share on your px6-300d.
One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device
One touch transfer of content is created on the QuikTransfer page. On the QuikTransfer page, you can set
the default destination Share for any automatically created QuikTransfer Copy Jobs.
QuikTransfer automatically copies all files from any USB external storage device plugged into your px6-
300d Network Storageto the destination Share when the QuikTransfer button is pressed.
You must have a USB external storage device connected to the px6-300dbefore using this
feature.
Setting QuikTransfer
1. Select a destination folder for the default QuikTransfer Copy Job by clicking and selecting a
folder in the file browser. The file browser provides a way to select a Share and all its folders, or
just some of the folders under a Share.
2. Click Apply to save your setting.
Backing up and Restoring Your Content
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