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NETGEAR ReadyNAS
User Guide
NETGEAR, Inc.
4500 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
202-10320-01
v1.0
October 2007
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© 2007 by NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. Technical Support Registration on the website or over the phone is required before you can use our telephone support service. The phone numbers for worldwide regional customer support centers are on the Warranty and Support Information card that came with your product. Go to http://kbserver.netgear.com for product updates and Web support. Trademarks NETGEAR, the NETGEAR logo, ReadyNAS, X-RAID, FrontView, RAIDar, RAIDiator, Network Storage Processo
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Product and Publication Details Model Number: Publication Date: October 2007 Product Family: Network Storage Product Name: ReadyNAS Network Attached Storage Home or Business Product: Business Language: English Publication Part Number: 202-10320-01 Publication Version Number: 1.0 iii v1.0, October 2007
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Contents NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide About This Manual Conventions, Formats, and Scope .................................................................................... x How to Use This Manual .................................................................................................. xi How to Print This Manual ................................................................................................. xi Revision History ..........................................................
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USB Shares ...........................................................................................................1-41 Configuring Backup Jobs ..............................................................................................1-42 Adding a New Backup Job .....................................................................................1-43 Viewing the Backup Schedule ................................................................................1-48 Programming the Backup Butt
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Logs .........................................................................................................................3-2 Replacing a Failed Disk ..................................................................................................3-3 Ordering a Replacement Disk ..................................................................................3-3 Replacing a Failed Disk on the ReadyNAS NV+ .....................................................3-3 Replacing the Failed Disk on
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viii Contents v1.0, October 2007
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About This Manual Congratulations on your purchase of a ReadyNAS Network Attached Storage system from NETGEAR, Inc. If you have not already done so, please read the printed Installation Guide provided with your product and the ReadyNAS Setup Manual on the Installation CD. The ReadyNAS Setup Manual takes you step-by-step through the FrontView Setup Wizard and quickly prepares the ReadyNAS for your network. The NETGEAR® ReadyNAS User Guide explains each of the available options in detail, incl
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Conventions, Formats, and Scope The conventions, formats, and scope of this manual are described in the following paragraphs: • Typographical Conventions. This manual uses the following typographical conventions: Italic Emphasis, books, CDs, file and server names, extensions Bold User input, IP addresses, GUI screen text Fixed Command prompts, CLI text, code italic URL links • Formats. This manual uses the following formats to highlight special messages: Note: This f
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide How to Use This Manual The HTML version of this manual includes the following: • Buttons, and , for browsing forward or backward through the manual one page at a time. • A button that displays the table of contents and a button that displays an index. Double-click on a link in the table of contents or index to navigate directly to where the topic is described in the manual. • A button to access the full NETGEAR, Inc. online knowledge base for the product model. •
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • Click the print icon in the upper left corner of your browser window. Tip: If your printer supports printing two pages on a single sheet of paper, you can save paper and printer ink by selecting this feature. Revision History Version Part Number Date Description Number 202-10320-01 1.0 Oct. 2007 First publication xii About This Manual v1.0, October 2007
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Chapter 1 Configuring Your ReadyNAS The FrontView Advanced Control mode shows all of the settings available in the Setup Wizard plus some more advanced features. The basic network settings and other, optional, more advanced features are included in this chapter. NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] Figure 1-1 When you first switch to this mode, you see the menus on the left that allow you to quickly jump to the screen you want. As you click the menu buttons, you notice a similar theme across all sc
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Toward the bottom left, there are two buttons that allow you to switch back and forth between the Setup Wizard mode and the Advanced Control mode. At the bottom of the screen is the status bar including the date button on the left which, which clicked, links you to the Clock screen. The status lights to the right give a quick glimpse of the system device status. Figure 1-3 Move the mouse pointer over the status light to display device information, or click a status
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • IP Assignment. Select either Use values from a DHCP server or Use values below. – If you elect to assign the IP address using Use values from a DHCP server, NETGEAR advises that you set the lease time on the DHCP server/router to a value of at least a day. Otherwise, you might notice that the ReadyNAS IP address changes even when ReadyNAS has been powered down for only a few minutes. Most DHCP servers allow you to assign a static IP address for specified MAC add
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If you wish to use the ReadyNAS in a VLAN environment, select the Enable VLAN support check box, and enter a numeric VLAN tag. You need to reboot the ReadyNAS for the VLAN function to take effect. Warning: Do not enable VLAN support unless you are sure that your clients also support VLAN. Otherwise, you can lose network access to the ReadyNAS, and you might need to reinstall the firmware to disable the VLAN setting. In the Performance Setting area, the Enable jumb
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Global Network Settings Figure 1-9 Hostname The Hostname you specify is used to advertise the ReadyNAS on your network. You can use the hostname to address the ReadyNAS in place of the IP address when accessing the ReadyNAS from Windows, or over OS X using SMB. This is also the name that appears in the RAIDar scan list. The default hostname is nas- followed by the last three bytes of your primary MAC address. Default Gateway The Default Gateway specifies the IP add
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide DNS Settings The DNS area allows you to specify up to three Domain Name Service servers for hostname resolution. The DNS service translates host names into IP addresses. If you selected the DHCP option in the Ethernet or Wireless tab, the Domain Name Server fields are automatically populated with the DNS settings from your DHCP server. If you selected the Static option, you can manually specify the IP addresses of the DNS servers and the domain name here. WINS The
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide DHCP The DHCP tab allows you to specify this device as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server. DHCP service simplifies management of a network by dynamically assigning IP addresses to new clients on the network. Figure 1-11 Select the Enable DHCP service check box if you want the ReadyNAS device to act as a DHCP server. This is convenient in networks where DHCP service is not already available. Note: These options are available only if this device is
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide this password is kept in a safe place. Anyone who obtains this password can effectively change or erase the data on the ReadyNAS. Figure 1-12 Note: In User or Domain security mode, you can use the admin account to log in to a Windows share, and perform maintenance on any file or folder in that share. The admin user also has permission to access all user private home shares to perform backups. As a safeguard, you are requested to enter a password recovery question,
