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Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head User Manual

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NAS Function and Management

To create a Replication Backup for a Share Disk, follow these steps:

1. In NAS configuration:

Backup > Replication Backup

2. Click the

Create

button, enter configuration settings for the Replication.

• Enter the IP address of the

Remote Backup Server

(a separate NAS)

• Choose a

Policy

for replication:

Mirror Mode

syncs added and modified files

and mirrors file deletion,

Copy Mode

syncs added and modified files and

does NOT delete any files that were deleted on the source Share Disk.

• Optional settings include

Encryption

(check box to enable) changing

the

Port

on the backup server. To change the default Port number,

uncheck the box and type in the port number to use.

• Choose the

Portal IP

for the NAS from the drop-down menu.

• Choose the

Schedule

type to use for syncing. Note that the default value Disable

means the replication is done manually (see “Run Replication Backup” below).

• Choose the number of

Retry Times

, the number of times to try again if the connection fails.

• Connection Timeout

is the time in seconds allowed for the

connection to be idle before disconnecting.

• Change the

Maximum Transfer Rate

if you want to limit the rate at which

the transfer is allowed to proceed. By default, this is unlimited.

3. Click the

Next

button to proceed.

The connection will first be validated.

4. If the connection to the server is made, choose Share Disks with identical names on both ends of the

backup connection, that is, the source and destination Share Disk must have the same name.

5. Click the

Apply

button to create the Replication Backup settings.

Create Replication Backup menu