User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1. Getting Started
- Start Using Your ReadyNAS System
- Additional Documentation
- Supported ReadyNAS Systems
- Supported Operating Systems
- Supported Browsers
- Diskless Systems
- Basic Installation
- Upgrade Pre-6.2 ReadyNAS Firmware for Use With ReadyCLOUD
- Discover and Set Up Your ReadyNAS Using ReadyCLOUD
- Local Setup Wizard
- Admin Page
- Access the Local Admin Page
- Register Your System
- Five Levels of Protection
- The ReadyNAS Community
- Safe Mode
- 2. Volume Configuration
- Basic Volume and RAID Concepts
- ReadyTIER, Tiers, Data, and Metadata
- Manage Volumes
- Change RAID Mode
- View the Status of a Volume
- Configure the Checksum Function
- Format Disks
- Create and Encrypt a Volume
- Delete a Volume
- Name a USB Drive
- Expand Storage Capacity
- Add Protection to a Volume
- Add Protection to a Flex-RAID Volume
- Add a Group to a Flex-RAID Volume
- Delete a RAID Group
- Use the Volume Management Wizard to Create a Volume
- Add a Tier to a Volume
- Enable or Disable Quotas on Volumes
- Maintain Volumes
- 3. Shares
- 4. LUNs
- 5. Snapshots
- 6. Users and Groups
- 7. Use Cloud Services
- 8. System Settings
- 9. System Power
- 10. Install and Manage Apps
- 11. System Monitoring
- 12. System Maintenance
- 13. Backup and Recovery
Table 4. Supported file-sharing protocols (Continued)
RecommendationDescriptionProtocol
If users connect to systems using SSH,
enable this protocol.
Protocol for secure data communication.SSH (Secure Shell)
If users access files using the SMB protocol,
and you want automatic antivirus scanning
of those files, enable this protocol.
Adds antivirus scanning to new files written
using the SMB protocol.
Antivirus
Quotas on Shares
You can set and change quotas on shares. Without a quota, a share can use all of the
space on the volume it resides on. You cannot set quotas on home folders. Quotas are
a property of the folder and can be set when the folder is created, or added or changed
like any folder property.
Bit Rot Protection
Bit rot is a term sometimes used to describe the gradual changes in disks causing a
slow loss of reliability. ReadyNAS OS can use the checksum functions to check for bit
rot and the redundancy in RAID-protected disks to rewrite corrected data.
RAID levels other than RAID 0 provide data redundancy used to detect, and in some
cases correct, disk read errors. Sometimes a read error is a one-time error, but other
times, the data on the disk is no longer reliable because of changes to the disk with age
(disk bit rot). With bit rot protection turned on, when an error is detected, the data is
rewritten, which restores the reliability of the data, in effect restarting the clock on the
bit rot.
Bit rot protection is available for any folder stored on your ReadyNAS system. On
higher-end models it is on by default. Bit rot protection can slow the performance of a
system and increase fragmentation, and so is not on by default on lower-end models.
Home Folders
Starting in OS version 6.2, every account on a ReadyNAS owns a private folder. The
content of your home folder is not visible to the other accounts on the ReadyNAS (except
the admin account/group). You can share the ReadyNAS with other people while keeping
content private.
You use it like any other folder on the ReadyNAS system. If you use a private Time
Machine to back up a Mac, that Time Machine is stored in your home directory.
Snapshots, if used, of content within the home folder are also within the home folder,
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