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
Basic Share Concepts
The volumes on your ReadyNAS can be divided into shares and logical unit numbers
(LUNs), both of which are logical entities on one or more disks. Shares and LUNs enable
you to organize data in a volume by type, group, user, department, and so on. A single
volume can contain multiple shares and LUNs.
Shares are NAS data sets that allow data transfer and storage over a network. You can
create a maximum of 1,024 shares on the ReadyNAS. The Admin Page displays shares
in the following way:
Figure 5. Share with file-sharing protocols enabled
Figure 6. Share with file-sharing protocols disabled
Shares are configured independently of one another, even though multiple shares can
reside on the same volume. You can configure properties of a share, including
compression, protection, file-sharing protocols, and access rights. You can also specify
whether and how often a snapshot is created. These properties are explained in this
chapter.
Data Organization
Shares are the way that you group your data. You might want to group your data by
type, for example:
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Documents
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Music
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Pictures
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Videos
Organizations might choose to group data by department:
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Accounting
•
Sales
•
Personnel
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