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
Note: RAID configuration of disks is not a substitute for backing up data. RAID
configuration protects you from data loss only if a disk fails. For more information about
the protection that RAID configuration offers, see RAID on page 24.
A backup source or destination can be local (stored on the ReadyNAS) or remote (stored
somewhere else). If the backup source or destination is remote, you must select the
backup protocol that you want to use (see Backup Protocols on page 264).
Local options for backup sources and destinations are described in the following table.
Table 13. Local backup sources and destinations
DescriptionItem
Source or destination is a volume on the
ReadyNAS.
volume: <volume name>
Source or destination is a share on the
ReadyNAS.
share: <share name>
Source or destination is every user’s home
share on the ReadyNAS.
All Home Shares
Source or destination is a user’s home share
on the ReadyNAS.
home: <home share name>
Source or destination is connected a USB or
eSATA port on the ReadyNAS.
External Storage (<location
of connection>)
Source is the Time Machine data stored
locally on the ReadyNAS.
Time Machine
Recovery Concepts
The process of restoring backed-up data to the device where the primary copy is kept
is called recovery.
A recovery source is the place where you store the backed-up data. A recovery
destination is the place to which you want to restore the backed-up data. The recovered
data replaces a deleted or damaged primary copy.
If you store backed-up data on the ReadyNAS system, you can create a recovery job to
restore backed-up data to your computer or other primary device.
Software Manual263Backup and Recovery
ReadyNAS OS 6.10