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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. To active the function on these
models, please get a license key from your vendor and enter the key on the Server ÆLicense
menu of the administration page.
It requires some simple configuration before using the Disc Server function. Please open the
administration page, select Quick Setup from the Disc Server menu. On the page, select the CD
or DVD device which will duplicate the disc image automatically when a disc is inserted. Then
specify the folder to store the duplicated disc images. Click Apply to save the settings.
Insert a disc into the CD or DVD device. It should start duplicating the disc image immediately.
When it finishes, network users can access the disc by opening the MIRROR share of the NAS
server.
7.2 Creating Disc Images
Using the local optical device to duplicate disc images
The simplest and fastest way to create a disc image is to use the CD or DVD device of NAS
server to duplicate the inserted discs. Usually a CD can be duplicated in 5 to 10 minutes.
To configure a device so that it can automatically duplicate any inserted discs, please go to the
Disc Server ÆDisc Caching menu page of the administration page. In the Device List table, click
the hyperlink text in the CD Device’s Function column and change the CD function to Disc
Mirroring.
The Disc Mirroring Settings section will appear on the page. Select a folder as the target location.
The folder is called Disc Image Folder, which is a folder especially for storing disc images. In
addition to create a new disc image, it can also replace an existing disc image with the duplicated
one. If the disc image being replaced is shared, the duplicated disc image will inherit all the share