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
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Backup and Recovery
Your ReadyNAS system can manage backup and recovery for many devices on your
network. For example, you can back up data that is stored on your ReadyNAS storage
system to secondary devices, such as a USB drive. You can also use your ReadyNAS
storage system to store backed-up data from other devices, like your laptop.
If your data is important enough to store, it is important enough to back up. Data can
be lost due to a number of events, including natural disaster (for example, fire or flood),
theft, improper data deletion, and hard drive failure. If you regularly back up your data,
you can recover your data if any of these situations occur.
Businesses sometimes use backup data to comply with data retention regulations and
to archive information before making major changes to their IT environments, such as
batch updates to databases. At home and in business settings, back up important data
that might be lost due to a natural disaster or the loss of a device that stores data.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Backup Concepts
• Recovery Concepts
• Secure Cloud Backups
• Backup Protocols
• Backups Compared to ReadyDR Backups
• Back Up Files
• Backup Snapshots With ReadyDR
• Back Up a Camera or Other Media Device
• Back Up Using Time Machine
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