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
Backup Concepts
A backup is a copy of data that you use if your primary copy is deleted or damaged.
The process of storing primary data on a second device is called backing up.
A backup source is the place where you store the primary copy of the data that you want
to back up.
A backup destination is the place where you store the backed-up data.
If you store primary copies of your data on your ReadyNAS system, you can create a
backup job to back up your data to a secondary device on the same network.
Figure 12. Backing up data from a ReadyNAS system to a secondary device (USB drive)
If you store primary copies of your data on your computer or other device, you can
create a backup job to back up your data to a ReadyNAS system that is on the same
network.
Figure 13. Backing up data from a computer to a ReadyNAS system
A full backup makes a copy of all the data stored on the primary system. Your first backup
of a primary system is always a full backup job. The amount of time a full backup takes
depends on the amount of stored data.
An incremental backup copies only the data that changed since your last backup process.
An incremental backup job takes much less time than a full backup job.
Software Manual262Backup and Recovery
ReadyNAS OS 6.10