4-Slot NAS RAID Server NAS-3410 User’s Manual
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Safety Notices: Caution: This unit is provided real-time clock circuit. There is a danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced. Caution: Before connect or disconnect power cord of the power supply, ensure to turn the power supply switch OFF to avoid the risk of equipment damage.
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 1.1 Features --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.2 Package Contents --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.
.4 Expanding a RAID-5 Volume ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 5.5 Migrating Data Volumes----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 5.6 SmartExtend – Add More NAS Capacity-------------------------------------------------------------- 29 5.7 Volume/Disk Scan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 31 5.
9.5 Loading and Writing CD/DVD Discs ------------------------------------------------------------------- 74 9.6 Backup and Restore System Profiles------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Chapter 10 Virus Protection -------------------------------------------------------- 79 10.1 Information-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 79 10.
Chapter 1 Introduction To accommodate the increasing storage demands for enterprise, small business, SOHO, and home use, PLANET provides a reliable and affordable solution, the NAS-3410. Regardless of the operating systems installed in your network, the NAS-3410 has straightforward setup procedures and can be installed in any existing network environment using its simple and intuitive management interface. 1.
• Quick Installation Guide • CD-ROM Note: there are four utilities included in the CD-ROM: NAStart, eMulateCD, eContent, and Second Copy 2000. You can find the detailed usage of respective utility in its on-line help. Moreover, this manual also includes the instruction for NAStart in Appendix A. If any of the above items are damaged or missing, please contact your dealer immediately. 1.3 Physical Details Front View Power button: When the A/C power cable is in socket, the NAS-3410 will start to initiate.
Power/Fault Green Power on – – Yellow Fault – – NAS System Board Diagram 3
Chapter 2 Initial Installation 2.1 Hardware Installation Procedures Step 1: Pull out a HDD tray from the NAS-3410 mobile rack. Step 2: Configuring the jumper on your hard disk using Cable Select (CS) before installing to the hard disk tray. (Refer to your hard disk’s user manual for the instruction) Step 3: Secure and mount a hard disk onto the HDD tray using four screws under the tray.
Step 4: Insert the HDD tray back in the mobile rack. Make sure the lever of the mobile rack is properly in place. Step 5: Repeat Step 1 to Step 3 if necessary for the other HDD trays. Step 6: Connect your NAS-3410 to the network by attach a LAN cable from the LAN port located at the back of your NAS-3410. (At least one network connection is required) Step 7: Plug the power cord into the power connector on you NAS-3410. Step 8: Make sure the power switch on the power supply is in ON position.
Verify the HDD status LED 1 (Power/Fault) LED 2 (HD Access) Meaning Green Blinks Off (Master) Powering up Red On (Slave) Green On Red On during access HDD is being accessed Green Blinks Fast Red On RAID building, rebuilding, expanding or disk-scanning Amber On Off HDD is ready for being hot-unplugged Amber Blinks Fast Off HDD carrier fan error. Blinking interval is about 0.5 second. Amber Blinks Slowly Off Disk faulty. Blinking interval is about 2 seconds.
2.2 Setting the IP Addresses LCD console flow chart LCD menu console flow chart System Ready No LAN 1 mask : 255.255.0.0 LAN 1 gateway : 192.168.1.254 LAN 1 IP: 192.168.1.1 Enter Configure LAN 1? Yes / No Yes Configure LAN 1 IP/Gateway/Mask No LAN 2 mask : 255.255.0.0 LAN 2 gateway : 192.168.2.254 LAN 2 IP: 192.168.2.1 Enter Configure LAN 2? Yes / No Yes Configure LAN 2 IP/Gateway/Mask No LAN 3 mask : 255.255.0.0 LAN 3 gateway : 192.168.3.1 LAN 3 IP: 192.168.3.
System Ready 2. The IP address of LAN1 is shown. Press the middle button to configure LAN1 IP address. Note that the symbol at the right hand upper corner indicates that the IP address can be configured using the LCD console. LAN1 IP: 192.168.1.1 3. Move the cursor to Yes by pressing the left button and then press the middle button to confirm. Configure LAN 1? Yes/No 4. Move the cursor to the correct position using the left or right button. Then press the middle button to change that number.
5. After you edit the last digit of the IP address, press the right button and configure the Subnet Mask address. 6. Repeat Steps 4 to Steps 5 to configure the Subnet Mask and Gateway address. 7. After you edit the last digit of the Gateway address, press the right button. Move the cursor to Save and save the setting or Edit to repeat the above process or Abort to quit the configuration process without saving. Exit LAN 1 Menu? Save/Edit/Abort 8. Repeat the above process to configure the other LAN port.
http://192.168.1.1 /admin/ or Run the utility NAStart utility provided in the CD-ROM, right-click on a NAS server on the left-hand tree-view pane. Select Admin page item from the right-click menu to open the administration page. It will prompt for username and password. By factory default, the username is admin and no password is needed.
Chapter 3 Server Configuration This chapter describes how to name the server, specify the server date and time, upgrade the OS firmware, shut down the system and use UPS with the NAS-3410. 3.1 Server Information and Settings Click Server from the administration homepage. You will see the Information page describing the summary information of the NAS-3410. The Information page is divided into two sections. The General Settings section shows the parameters which can be modified on the ServerÆGeneral page.
UPS Support Indicates whether the UPS support is enabled or not Auto Power Restoration If enabled, the server will power on automatically when the power restores after abnormal shutdown System folder resides in Display the volume name of which the system folder is located The System Information section shows the hardware and firmware status of the server.
To use smart-signaling UPS, connect UPS to the NAS-3410 with an RS-232 cable. Then go to the ServerÆUPS Settings menu on the administration page to enable UPS support. To use network-type UPS, connect the UPS to the LAN first. Then go to the ServerÆUPS Settings page on the administration page. Enable UPS support, select Network UPS from the UPS Type menu and enter the UP IP address below. Below are the shutdown options on the page.
saving copies in the system folder. 3.5 Shutting Down the Server Shutdown, reboot and startup actions The NAS-3410 can be shut down by pressing the power button twice at the front of the server case. The whole shutdown process might take seconds to minutes until data are all safely saved to the hard disks. To shut down the server from the Administration Homepage, select Shutdown from the Server menu and click the Reboot or Shutdown button. You can specify the actions to take during the next startup.
Activating Optional Features To activate the optional features, please follow the steps. 1. Open the Administration Page, select License from the Server menu. The page is like: 2. Enter the license key in the input field. A license key is a string of 24 characters. The characters can be any numbers or English letters. Please note that license keys are case-sensitive. 3. Click Apply to save the settings. 4. The activation is successful if the License Type becomes Full.
Chapter 4 Network Configuration This chapter details concepts and procedures for configuring the NAS-3410 and establishing the system that can communicate among various OS platforms. Management protocol and email notification setting are also covered in this chapter. 4.1 Network Information The Network Information screen is the summary of the current network settings of the NAS-3410. It provides the administrator a quick look of the basic network setting of the NAS-3410.
NTP Time Server IP Address The IP address of the NTP (Network Time Protocol) server, which is used to synchronize system time automatically over the net. The system time will be synchronized with the NTP server every 24 hours. SMTP Server Address IP address or server name of the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server used in sending and receiving e-mail. HTTP Proxy Server IP Address IP address of the HTTP proxy server. Next to the IP address is the port number. 4.
The NAS server can support jumbo frames, using packet sizes to 9K bytes instead of the standard Ethernet's 1500 bytes. Using the jumbo frames, the NAS server reduces the networking overhead and would hence increase network throughput. In addition to enabling the jumbo frame support on the NAS server, you must also enable the support on the Gigabit switches and client PCs so that they can communicate using jumbo frames. Configuring TCP/IP Settings 1.
Configuring Windows Network Settings 1. Click the Enable Windows Network (SMB/CIFS Protocol) checkbox to enable access for SMB client. 2. Enter the Workgroup/Domain name. 3. Click the Workgroup Mode radio button if you want to configure NAS-3410 in Workgroup Mode. 4. Or, click the Domain Mode radio button if you want to configure NAS-3410 in Domain Mode. 5. Select the option to support Unicode. 6. Select the option to disconnect idle connection automatically.
Number Read (R) Write (W) Execute (X) 0 No No No 1 No No Yes 2 No Yes No 3 No Yes Yes 4 Yes No No 5 Yes No Yes 6 Yes Yes No 7 Yes Yes Yes Example: If the permission of a file is set to 777, this file has read, write and execute permissions for the owner, the group and for other users. Configuring UNIX/Linux Network Settings 1. Click the Enable UNIX/Linux Network (NFS Protocol) checkbox to enable access for NFS client. 2.
4. After enabling the NIS support, you can auto-mapping NIS users with local/domain users. In UNIX/Linux menu, click the Modify icon. 5. Click the Auto-map with NIS users link to map with the users in the configured NIS server. 6. Click Apply to save the settings. 4.5 Macintosh Settings NAS-3410 supports two kinds of protocols used for Mac OS clients – AppleTalk and TCP/IP (Open Transport). Also, NAS-3410 provides two kinds of security polices for Macintosh Network AFP client.
Frame: Frame types determine how packets of network data are formatted on different LANs. The default setting is AUTO in the NAS-3410. Internal Network Number: A logical network number that identifies an individual NetWare server on the LAN. Configuring NetWare Settings 1. Click the Enable NetWare Network (NCP Protocol) checkbox to enable access for NetWare client. 2. The NetWare server name is the original server name following by a “_NW”.
download radio button. 3. Select the appropriate Security Policy. Check the Allow anonymous login and map to: check-box, and select a local user from the pull down menu. User using the anonymous login will then possess the same security privilege as the selected local user. 4. Or, click Allow individual user login.
receive trap message. 5. Select Read Only from the pull down menu if you want the corresponding management console has read only privilege. 6. Repeat Step 2 to Step 5 if more than one management console is available. NAS-3410 supports up to 4 management consoles. 7. Enter the location information of your NAS-3410. 8. Enter the name of the contact person who has the management information of the NAS-3410. 9.
pops up. Once the CA certificate is installed, the client can access all NAS-3410s' web pages with SSL connection. Suppose that the server IP address is 192.168.1.10. To access the NAS-3410's web pages with SSL connection, please open https://192.168.1.10/ for the user homepage, or https://192.168.1.10/admin/ for the administration homepage. If the server certificate with the server name is chosen, please open https://[server_name] instead.
Chapter 5 Storage Management This chapter describes how to create a single-disk volume or a RAID volume. It also outlines the steps of deleting a volume, expanding a RAID-5 volume and assigning hot-spare disks. After a volume is created, please refer to the next chapter for more information about sharing data and assigning permissions. 5.1 Volume Usage and Status A volume is a logical storage unit. Each volume holds a complete file-system.
Apply (Degraded) inconsistent. Apply (Faulty RW) It means that the server has to read and apply the volume settings from the hard disks. Apply (Rebuild) Apply (Expand) After the volume settings are restored, it will return to the last known state, which is specified in parentheses. Checking Checking the file-system. Mounting Mounting the volume for data access. Create (xx%) Creating a volume. The progress is shown in percentage. Rebuild (xx%) Rebuilding a RAID.
be used to create a volume or be assigned as a hot-spare disk. Defective The hard disk contains bad sectors. Off-line The hard disk is not mounted and not accessible. Backup/Archiving Devices These are either CD/DVD-ROM drives, CD/DVD writers or tape drives. Type indicates what kind of device it is. Mode indicates the data transfer mode of the storage device interface. Device type could be CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-ROM+CD-RW or Tape.
RAID 0 RAID level 0 is disk striping only, which distribute data evenly over multiple disks for better performance. It does not provide safeguards against failure. RAID level 0 uses two or more hard disks. RAID 1 RAID level 1 uses disk mirroring, which provides 100% duplication of data. It offers high reliability, but doubles storage cost. RAID level 1 uses two hard disks. RAID 5 RAID level 5 distributes data and parity bits over multiple disks for both performance and fault tolerance.
To expand a SmartExtend volume, please open the administration page of the SmartExtend target system. When the target volume is connected to the initiator, use the VolumeÆExpand function to expand the target volume. 5.5 Migrating Data Volumes Migrating a data volume is to duplicate a volume block by block. It helps administrators migrate or duplicate data between volumes of different RAID types or capacity.
Connected/ Disconnected Automatic Recovery of Broken Connections Indicates the status of a SmartExtend target volume. If connected, a SmartExtend initiator can access data in the SmartExtend target volume. A SmartExtend initiator will try to connect to every target volume in the target volume list when it starts up. If network is not very stable, a SmartExtend target volume might be disconnected occasionally. A SmartExtend initiator will try to recover a broken connection every 5 minute.
user account when it tries to use the target volume. The user account must be a member of this group. (c) Specify a SmartExtend initiator which will connect to this target volume. (d) Apply the settings. 7. On the VolumeÆSmartExtend page, you will see the target volume in the list, but the Status column will show Disconnected. You will need to build the connection from the SmartExtend initiator side. on the SmartExtend initiator system 8. Go to the VolumeÆSmartExtend page, click the Add button.
bad in the file system. All the newly added devices will be scanned before usage to ensure the data integrity in the NAS Server. Select the volumes or disks you want to scan, click Scan Now button to start scanning. Or, click Schedule to set the time for NAS Server to perform scanning at the scheduled time.
Chapter 6 Security Control This chapter covers how to setting up the security control of the files, folders and shares stored in NAS-3410. Managing Access Control List (ACL) file level security, file ownership and user quota are also covered in this chapter. You can configure the following types of security control on the NAS-3410: 1. Create, edit and delete user accounts in the local user database. 2. Create shares. 3. Configure Files, Folders and shares permission. 4.
Windows Security Mode Display the status of the Windows Network operating mode. Status: Domain Mode or Workgroup Mode Workgroup/Domain Name Display either the workgroup name or domain name Domain Login Account Display the username for retrieving the domain user list in the domain. ACL Security Control Display the status of the ACL Security Control. Status: Enabled or Disabled User Quota Control Display the status of the User Quota Control. Status: Enabled or Disabled 6.
5. If you want to disable this user account, click the Disable user account checkbox. 6. Select a group from the left hand window and click the member of this group in the Member of section. 7. Click Apply to save the setting. >> button to add the user as a To view and change local group property, 1. Go to SecurityÆAccountÆLocal Account menu. 2. Select a group. 3. Click the Property button. 4.
domain controller to store the information of all the domain users and groups. When the Windows Network is set to using Domain Mode in your NAS-3410, you need to cache domain account in the NAS-3410’s local user database. By caching domain accounts, it speeds up the process of setting permissions and quotas. To retrieve Windows domain user/group: 1. Go to SecurityÆAccount menu. 2. Click the Domain Account tab. 3.
When the domain controllers' NetBIOS names cannot be resolved by the network services, go to the 'DC Host Table' function on the Domain Account tab of the SecurityÆAccount menu, You can enter the mapping of the NetBIOS names to IP addresses in the DC Host Table. 6.4 Creating UNIX/Linux Host For NAS-3410, NFS client’s mount privileges are granted specifically to UNIX/Linux host created by the administrator.
11. To limit the number of users who can connect to the share, on the User limit, click Allow and enter a number of users. 12. Select the protocols you want to share. 13. Click Apply to save the setting. To assign share permission of a share for local account and domain account: 1. Go to SecurityÆShare menu. to assign or modify share permission to this share. 2. Locate the share and click 3. Highlight the users or groups from the left hand windows. 4.
8. Assign which UID/GID the root account of the UNIX host should be converted into when accessing the share. This is the ‘root squash’ function. 9. Click the >> button to join the privileged list. 10. You can modify the permission of the hosts in the privileged list by first highlight the privileged host and then select the appropriate permission from the pull down menu at the bottom of the right hand windows. 11. Click Apply to save the setting. 12.
6.7 Configuring File and Folder Security and ACL Access Control Lists (ACL) are associated with each file and folder, as well as the list of users and groups permitted to use that file or folder. When a user is granted access to the file or folder, an ACL node is created and added to the ACL for the file or folder. If you assign permissions to a local user, a Security ID (SID) created by NAS-3410 will be referred by the ACL for the file and folder security.
No Access (NA) – Account has been denied access to the file or folder. Read Only (RO) – Account is allowed to read the file or folder Write Only (WO) – Account is allowed to write to the file or folder Read Write (RW) – Account is allowed to read and write to the file or folder, but not to delete it. Modify (MO) – Account is allowed to read, write and delete the file or folder Full Control (FC) – Account is allowed to read both read and write and change permission to the file or folder.
Modify Modify ; Read & Execute ; Read & Execute ; List Folder Contents ; Read ; Read ; Write ; Write Modify (MO) Full Control Full Control ; Modify ; Modify ; Read & Execute ; Read & Execute ; List Folder Contents ; Read ; Read ; Write ; Write Full Control (FC) ; Full Control ; Full Control ; Modify ; Modify ; Read & Execute ; Read & Execute ; List Folder Contents ; Read ; Read ; Write ; Write To set, view, change or remove file/folder permission in Windows Network: 1
that the file and folder located. Below are the descriptions of the parameters when setting up user quotas. User Name User name in the local user database. UID The user ID set in the user mapping table in Network ÆUNIX/Linux menu. GID The group ID set in the user mapping table in NetworkÆUNIX/Linux menu. Type User type. Local or Domain. In Use Total amount of disk space used by the user. Quota Limit The amount of disk space in MB a user is allowed to use. 1.
5. Click Apply to save the settings. 6. Recalculate to obtain the most updated information of the total You can click the amount of disk space in use on each folder. To set all quotas to the same value, please specify the quota value in the Set all quotas to xx MB input field. Click the Set hyperlink to save settings.
Chapter 7 Disc Sharing and Data Archiving Disc Server creates and manages CD and DVD disc images for easy and fast disc sharing. It relieves the efforts of handling huge amount of discs. Thousands of discs can be kept online for user access. To protect those disc images, all NAS servers are equipped with a robust RAID sub-system, which features hot-spare disks and strong data protection. 7.1 Start to Use the Disc Server Function The Disc Server function is an optional feature on NAS-3410.
settings and permissions. The CD replacement will happen once and it will return to the previous settings. The disc image’s name can be either inherited from the CD label or user-defined. A user-defined name will only apply once to the next duplicated disc image. If you set the CD function to 'Direct Access', it will mount any disc inserted in the CD/DVD device. The mounted disc will appear as a folder under the default CDROM share.
To delete a disc image: To delete a disc image, check the check-boxes to the right and click the Delete icon. 7.4 Sharing Discs Administrators can choose to share a single disc, multiple discs or a disc image folder. If a single disc is shared, its content will be shown when users open the network share. If multiple discs are shared, the discs will appear as individual folders under the network share. The folder names are the same as the disc names.
administration page. To do disc recording, the CD function must be configured as Loader/Writer. To change the CD function, please click the hyperlink in the Function column of the Device List table. Next, select a disc image by clicking the Select a Disc hyperlink. After the selection is made, the disc image information will be shown underneath, including image size, disc format and disc volume label. Check the Erase disc before writing option if it is a rewriteable disc which contains data.
purposes Source Folders Specify the data to be archived. The folders, not preserving the full paths, will be archived to CD/DVD discs Disc Label Specifies the labels of the CD/DVD discs. Date Extension If the date extension is enabled, it will append the date of archiving to the disc labels. For example, ARCH20041010_01 is the first disc created by the data archiving task on October 25, 2004 with the date extension. The second disc will be ARCH20041010_02 if more than one disc is created.
Chapter 8 User Access The NAS-3410 fits into the network environment as soon as it is properly configured. This chapter describes how to get the NAS-3410 ready for user accesses from various network OS. Before reading on, please make sure that the NAS-3410 is configured with an IP address and a volume is created successfully. For the rest of the sections, we assume that the server name is NASSERVER, the IP address is 192.168.170.172 and there is a volume named volume01. 8.
1. Please configure the NAS-3410 to operate either in the workgroup mode or the domain mode. 2. Go to the NetworkÆWindows menu and select either Workgroup Mode or Domain Mode. Also specify the workgroup/domain name. It will require a server reboot afterwards. Create local accounts if the NAS-3410 is in the workgroup mode. 3. Go to the SecurityÆAccountÆLocal Account page and use the Add User or Add Group button to create local accounts.
3. Share the volume to network users. 4. Go to the SecurityÆFile/Folder menu. Find the volume01 entry and click Create in the Sharing column (or click Modify if the volume has been shared). On the Property page, check the Web Access (HTTP) check-box and click Apply. Set the share permissions. After sharing the volume, click the Share Permissions tab to specify the access rights of local users/groups and domain users/groups. Now users can run the web browser and open the IP address of 192.168.170.
Upload File: uploads files to the current path if the login user has the access right. Help: opens a new browser window with help information File Browsing When the user page is opened, the file-browsing window shows all the shares in the server. All the folders and files are presented as hyperlinks. If a folder is clicked, it will show its content in the same window. When a file is clicked, it will either open the file in another browser window or pop up a dialog-box for download.
open the NAS-3410. For example, open the Connect to Server window in Finder. You can either type the IP address of NASServer in the Address field. And click Connect to put it on Desktop. Or you can click AppleTalk in the middle left window pane to find the zone and the server. Once you find the server, click Connect to put it on Desktop. 8.5 Accessing from FTP Clients You can set an FTP home directory in the NAS-3410 for user access.
2. 3. select either one. Then specify the FTP home directory as volume01 and click Apply to save the settings. Create local user accounts or retrieve domain accounts from the domain controller, depending on whether the NAS-3410 is in the workgroup mode or the domain mode. Configure the folder security settings of volume01 to control user access. Click the Set hyperlink to specify the access rights (ACL) for the FTP home directory – volume01.
Chapter 9 Backup and Recovery 9.1 Snapshot – Fast Point-In-Time Copies Snapshots are read-only copies of file-systems at a specific point in time. Snapshot distinguishes itself in its speed. Creating a snapshot is not involved with copying user data, thus usually taking less than a second. The concept of snapshot is very different from tape backups. Data are not copied to any media during backup. Instead, it just informs the NAS that all the data blocks in use should be preserved, not being overwritten.
Delete snapshots if free space is low If enabled, it will automatically delete the oldest snapshots to free more disk space when the free space is lower than the specified percentage. Snapshot Policy They specify how many hourly, daily, weekly and monthly snapshots to keep, respectively. If the limit is exceeded, the oldest snapshot of the same type will be deleted. If not specified, it will keep the snapshots until being manually deleted. Creating Snapshots There are several ways to create snapshots.
column. There are four types of schedules – hourly, daily, weekly and monthly. Each volume can have up to 8 schedules of any types. 9.2 Tape Backup and Restore The NAS-3410 builds in backup software for data protection. The backup software features full or incremental backup, scheduled tasks and multi-volume backup. The administrator is able to define backup policy by incorporating one or more backup tasks. It can also utilize the hardware compression capability.
6. Specify whether to overwrite the tape. If yes, the backup task will rewind the tape to the beginning and overwrite it with backup files. If not, it will append the backup to the tape, not overwriting any existing data on tape. 7. Specify whether to enable hardware compression capability when the tape drive has the feature. 8. Click the Apply button. Restoring Files from Tape To restore data from tape, please open the administration page and go to BackupÎTape Backup page.
5. To restore selected files or folders, please make selections on the Java UI in the What to Restore item. 6. Choose the target location. It can restore data to either the original location or an alternative location. If the original location is selected, it will restore data to the location where they are originally backed up. Please note that if the original volume is missing, it will not restore anything. The alternative location means any user-defined path.
9.3 Using a Tape Library First, set up the tape library so that it can be controlled by software. Please refer to the tape library’s instruction manuals for details. Then, connect the tape library to the NAS server with a SCSI cable. The NAS server supports up to two tape libraries. The tape library support is an optional feature on NAS-3410. Managing Devices, Tapes and Tape Cleaning When the NAS server starts up, it will initialize the tape library. It might take a while.
Inventorying tape slots It checks all the slots of the tape library to see if they are occupied and reads in media information from all the tapes. The whole process may take a while, depending on the number of tapes and the tape drive speed. Erasing a tape The quick-erasing function overwrites the tape header only. It takes much less time than erasing a tape, which wipes out all data in the tape.
Each media pool is divided into two sets, the save set and the scratch set. The save set is consisted of the tapes containing important data which cannot be overwritten. On the other hand, the scratch set is consisted of the tapes which are free to be overwritten. At the very beginning, all tapes are empty and locate in the scratch set. When the NAS server backs up data to a tape, the tape is moved to the save set.
1. Specify the task name. The created backup set will be named after the task name, appended by date/time. 2. Choose a tape library and the tape drive. Usually the tape drive is set to Auto, allowing the NAS server to choose any available tape drive to do the backups. 3. Select backup media. If you have defined any media pool, just select one. If not, you can choose the tapes to use for this backup task. 4. Choose to make full backups or incremental backups. A full backup will copy all source data.
1. Specify the task name. The created backup set will be named after the task name, appended by date/time. 2. Choose a tape library. 3. Specify what to backup by selecting source folders. 4. Add backup schedules by clicking the Add a Schedule hyperlink. A. Select the tape drive. Usually it is set to Auto, allowing the NAS server to choose any available tape drive to do the backups. B. Select backup media. Please define a media pool on the BackupÆTape LibraryÆMedia Pool menu if there is no media pool. C.
only partial of them. To view the information of the backup set, click the hyperlink in the Backup Type column. Next, choose to restore all files or only certain files or folders. For the latter, you need to install Sun Java virtual machine v1.4 or higher. Please go to http://java.sun.com and download the software. Use the Java UI to select the files or folders to be restored. Next, choose the destination: the original location or alternative location.
Two NAS-3410s are required, one as the SmartSync server, another as the SmartSync client. It will replicate data from the SmartSync client to the SmartSync server. On the NAS-3410 which acts as the SmartSync server, create a sync point in it. A sync point is a folder in the SmartSync server which is exposed to SmartSync clients for data replication. A sync point of mirror mode receives data from a SmartSync client and builds an identical data copy in it.
There are four steps to take when adding a SmartSync task. Step 1 is to specify the IP address of the SmartSync server. Please enter the IP address of the NAS-3410 where you create the sync point. The second input box is for the port number. By default, port 873 is used to get remote SmartSync server information such as sync point names. If the port is remapped by a firewall or a NAT device, you must specify the remapped port number here.
The GFS media rotation mechanism is the policy of managing backup versions. The policy is described as below. Basically it will check for obsolete versions and delete them when a new backup version is created. X, Y, Z are user-defined numbers. a. It will keep all the backup versions today. b. It will keep one backup version per day in the last X days, except today. c. It will keep one backup version per week in the last Y weeks prior to the X days. d.
Step 1 is to specify the IP address of the SmartSync server. Step 2 is to choose a sync point of “Backup” mode in the SmartSync server. Specify the action as “Backup to server”. Please also provide a user account with the privilege to replicate data to the sync point. Step 3 is to complete the task settings. On the page you should provide the task name, select the source folder to replicate, specify the schedule and configure the SmartSync options.
On the NAS-3410 which acts as the SmartSync client, set up a SmartSync task, which defines the schedule settings and the target folder. To set up a SmartSync task, please go to the BackupÎSmartSync ÎTask menu on the Administration Page. Click the Add Task button. Follow the steps to take to add the SmartSync task. Step 1 is to specify the IP address of the SmartSync server. Step 2 is to choose a sync point of “Distribute” mode in the SmartSync server.
The SmartSync Options When setting up a SmartSync task, you will see the following SmartSync options. • Compress the data stream during data transmission: when checked, it will compress data before transmitting to the SmartSync server. Sometimes it will make it faster to complete a task. However, it takes extra CPU time to compress data and may have performance penalty if compression ratio is low. • Contain security information: when checked, it will send ACL information to the SmartSync server.
1. Select a Source Device where you insert the disc to be loaded. Above the Source Device item you will see a device list for your reference. 2. 3. Specify the destination. Click the Select Path hyperlink and select a target path. Choose whether to overwrite the existing files. “Overwrite with newer files” means it will overwrite the target if the files on the CD/DVD disc are newer. 4. Click Apply to start copying data.
The NAS-3410 supports CD or DVD burning. It can use ISO-9660 CD format to write data to CD or DVD discs. Supported devices are CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD+RW writers. Dual-layer DVD writing is also supported. To write data to CD/DVD discs, please insert a blank disc into the CD/DVD writer first. Next, open the Administration Page and enter the BackupÆLoader/Writer page. Then follow the steps below. 1. Click the Writer tab in BackupÆLoader/Writer menu 2.
When it is writing to disc, you can see the progress by clicking the hyperlink in the Status column of the Device List. A separate browser window will pop up. The progress is indicated by the progress bar, the Processed Folders item, the Processed Files item and the Size Processed item. You can also check the Task Phase to see what the CD/DVD writer is doing. If it requires more than one disc to burn the source data, it will prompt for a new disc after the first disc is burned ok.
the system configurations to factory default. Go to the ServerÎShutdown page. Check the Reset configuration to factory default option and click the Reboot button. The second step is to restore system configurations using one of the system profiles. Go to the BackupÎSystem ProfilesÎRestore page. Select a system profile and choose which part of the system settings to restore. Then click the Apply button. A system profile can also be created by the NAStart software.
Chapter 10 Virus Protection Most storage systems are vulnerable to virus attacks. An infected file in you NAS-3410 can be exchanged among the clients system in the network and resulting in corrupted data or causing productivity loss. The integrated Trend Micro antivirus software in NAS-3410 is the best-of-breed security product that delivers the reliable antivirus protection to prevent virus from spreading before they get to you. 10.
Antivirus requires the system folder to operate. Please go to the Server Æ Maintenance page and specify the volume where the system folder resides. Note: For the first-time operation, please go to the Virus ScanÆ Update page to obtain the most updated virus pattern file. Otherwise, the antivirus function cannot work. Enabling Real-time Scanning The real-time scanning function provides antivirus protection while users are reading or writing files to the NAS-3410. 1. 2.
File Types to Scan 1. Click the desire scan file type. 2. If All file types is selected, all files regardless to its file extension will be scanned. 3. If Files with specified file extensions Only is selected, specify using the recommended extensions recommended by Trend Micro or specify the file extension manually. Note that the maximum scanning layer of a compressed file is set to 2 layers for all real-time, manual and scheduled scan. 4. Actions When Virus Found 1.
2. Or, you can download the virus pattern file in ZIP format from Trend Micro’s website – http://www.trendmicro.com manually. Select A virus pattern file in ZIP format here and specify the location of the virus pattern file. 3. Click Apply to save the settings. Configuring a scheduled update 1. Click the Enable Scheduled Update of Virus Pattern Files checkbox to enable scheduled update. 2. Configure the download schedule. Select the start time and recurrence pattern for the scheduled update. 3.
Chapter 11 Event Logs and System Status This chapter covers the Event Notification and System Status pages. You can collect information about the system, hardware and security event of you NAS-3410. NAS-3410 records three kinds of logs: • • • System Log Device Log Security Log All the events are categorized into three levels: Info, Warning and Error. In EventÆConfiguration menu, you can configure the level of the logs.
temperature. Configuring thermal settings: 1. 2. 3. Go to Thermal Settings in EventÆConfiguration menu. Enable CPU Fan Control if you want NAS-3410 to adjust the CPU fan speed automatically based on the CPU and System temperature. Otherwise, the CPU fan will always run at full speed. You can set the NAS-3410 to give off warning message or shutdown base on the CPU or System temperature. Check the Warning and Shutdown checkboxes and select the proper temperature from the pull down menu. 4. 5.
Viewing Device Log In the EventÆDevice Log menu, you can: 8. Select the number of most recent events show on a screen. 9. Select the severity level for the events you want to see. 10. Click Refresh or 11. Click Clear or button to refresh the screen. button to clear the log. Viewing Security Log In the EventÆSecurity Log menu, you can: 12. Select the number of most recent events show on a screen. 13. Select the severity level for the events you want to see. 14. Click Refresh or 15.
• Current Connections – configure and show the protocol used by the client that is currently connecting to the NAS-3410 by click the check box beside the protocol you want to show on the list. • • • • • • • User – the name of the user who has connected to NAS-3410. Computer – the computer name of the client connecting to the NAS-3410. Address – the IP address of the client connecting to the NAS-3410. Protocol – the protocol used for the network connection: SMB, NFS, AFP or FTP.
Appendix A NAStart Utility NAStart is a powerful software that discover and administer NAS Servers on the network, and remotely loads disc images into the NAS Server. You can either duplicate a whole CD or build an image from a group of files. Sharing and publishing data was never been so easy. Use NAStart to display and modify the setting you have created. You can also perform server settings replication from a configured server to other NAS Servers on the network.
Installation System Requirement • IBM PC or compatible with 80486 processor or higher • At least 8 MB of free memory (16 MB is recommended) • Minimum 5MB of free hard disk space • VGA or higher resolution monitor • Microsoft Windows 95/98/98SE/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP Installing TCP/IP Protocol for Microsoft Networks NAStart communicates with NAS Servers through the TCP/IP protocol. You must install Client for Microsoft Networks and the TCP/IP protocol in Windows to use NAStart.
Discovering NAS-3410 When startups, NAStart automatically discover all the NAS-3410s on the network and display a list of server under the node Local Server. NAStart will automatically refresh the server list at a specified interval. The default interval is 10 minutes. NAStart can also locate NAS servers by IP addresses. It is useful when NAS servers are on the Internet or located in different network segments from the NAStart.
Importing and Exporting System Settings This section describes how to export the system settings of a NAS Server into a file. This file can be read into another NAS Server on the network by using the import feature. Import System Settings and Export System Settings form a combined process of replicate system settings from one configured NAS Server to another NAS Server. To export system settings of a NAS Server 1. Highlight the server from the server list. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Browsing & Administering Servers Browsing Servers Below is the main window of NAStart. Upon execution, NAStart brings up Windows Explorer for you to drag & drop files into My Container for later image building. You can disable this option by choosing Tool->NAStart Options and un-checking the option - "Open Windows Explorer when NAStart starts". The main window consists of a file menu, a tool bar, a tree view pane on the left, a list view pane on the right and a status bar on the bottom.
The following are some icon representations: NAS Network: display all the NAS Servers found on the LAN. NAS Server: represents a NAS Server Disc Image Folder: contains disc images of the NAS Server. You can double click to view its content. Disc Image: represents a mirrored CD/DVD image. The following are some examples of browsing the servers. Example 1. Content of a disc image folder It displays all the disc images, path name, size, status and file system.
Tree View Mode: expands or shrink the directory tree in the tree view pane (to the left). List View Mode: changes the view mode of items in the list view pane (to the right). Save Container: saves data in My Container into a container file. Load Container: loads a container file into My Container. Mirror CD: starts the "Mirror CD" wizard for duplicating CD images into the NAS Server. Build Image: starts the "Build Image" wizard to build a CD image from My Container into a NAS Server.
Mirroring CD/DVD Remotely This chapter describes how to copy a CD from a PC CD-ROM drive to a NAS Server. Please follow the steps below. 1. To mirror a CD or a DVD remotely into a NAS Server, first click the "Mirror CD" icon on the tool-bar. It invokes the "Mirror CD" wizard as shown below. Select a PC CD-ROM drive as the source. Press Next to continue. 2. Choose one or more servers as the destination.
3. Change the volume label of the CD/DVD image if necessary. If you want to change the volume label, click the 2. User Define radio button and enter the volume label in the input-box. Then click the Update button. Click the Next button afterwards. 4. Specify the date/time to run the task. Then press Next. 5. Set the Mirror CD options if necessary.
6. Click OK to start the task. The Task Manager will show the progress.
Archiving Files As a CD/DVD Image This chapter describes how to build CD image from My Container into a NAS Server. Please follow the steps below. 1. The first thing to build a CD/DVD image is to collect files. Open Windows Explorer and drag & drop files into My Container. 2. Click the "Build Image" icon on the tool-bar to bring up the "Build Image" wizard. You can click the Validate button to check if the file/folder information in My Container is correct. If not, you can choose to update My Container.
3. Choose one or more servers as the destination. Select a server in the Target & File Path list-box, select Smart mode for redundancy check of the CD image or select Force mode to allow a second copy of the same CD image. Then, click the >> button. You can see the task being added to the right-hand pane. Click the Next button to go to next page. 4. Name the CD/DVD image to be created. Enter the name in the Volume label input-box and click the Update button. Press Next afterwards. 5.
6. The Task Manager will show the progress.
Burning Disc Images If the NAS server is equipped with CD or DVD writer, it can burn any existing disc image in it. Select a NAS server from the NAS Servers tree view pane of the NAStart main window. Select a disc image in the NAS server and right-click on it. Select Record CD/DVD from the right-click menu. Specify the parameters in the wizard and click the Add CD-R Option button. Click Next to continue. On the next page, specify the launch schedule and click OK.
Appendix B Specification Model NAS-3410 Form Factor Tower Processor Intel Celeron 1.
