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Contents

Introduction 3

Remote Target Setup 4

Full Backup 5

Custom Backup 11

iSCSI Backup 17

Remote NAS' Full Backup Target Folder 23

Remote NAS' Custom Backup Target Folder 24

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Remote Backup

Introduction

Data Guard is the powerful backup solution that Thecus provides. Remote backup solutions on the market usually are expensive and requires a complicated setup. Thecus introduces a remote backup solution that allows you to set up different backup solutions in 1 minute; and of course, it’s free and built in to ThecusOS. In particular, a “Full backup”, “Custom backup” or “iSCSI backup”, can be set to real-time or scheduled backup accord-ing to demand.

In this How-to, we will back up data from a N5550 (demo IP: 172.16.65.131) to N4800 (demo IP: 172.16.65.111)Let’s get started!


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Remote Target SetupStep 1 - Setup Target NAS

- Open N4800 (172.16.65.111) web UI

- Click Backup > Rsync Target Server

- Select “Enable”

- Key in “Username” and “Password”

- Press “Apply”

- Setting is now finished and you may close the browser.


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Step 2 - Setup source NAS

- Open N5550 (172.16.65.131) web UI steps below are all in N5550 UI

- Click Backup > Data Guard, and you will see the work area right behind, all Data Guard backup tasks will be listed here.

- Click “Add” to add backup task.

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Step 3 - Remote backup’s full backup

- After clicking “Add”, the Data Backup Wizard will popup.

- Choose “Remote Backup”

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Step 4 -Full backup setup

- Choose “Full Backup”

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Step 5 - Connect to target NAS

- Key in IP address to Remote Target column and keep “873” as port number.

- Key in the Account and Password that you set up for the N4800.

- You will find the button below still shows “Previous”. You have to press the “Connection Test” first, then the “Next” button will show up.

- Press “Next” button.

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Step 6 - Full backup setup

- The page provides several functions that you can choose on demand.

- Then press “Finish” button

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Step 7 - Task list

- Then you will see the task on the list.

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Custom Backup

Step 1 - Custom backup (In the solu-tion, you can select individual fold-ers to backup)

- Select “Custom Backup”

Previously, we have already setup N4800 Rsync target server, so we don’t repeat it here and will demo the custom backup.


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Custom BackupStep 2- Connect target NAS

- Key in Remote Target’s IP address, Ac-count and Password.

- Input “Target Folder” name. Please note that the letter case are consistent.

- Press “Connection Test”

- Press “Next”


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Custom BackupStep 3 - Select RAID volume you want to backup.

- Double click RAID Volume’s name, here is “RAID5” in the guide.

- Press “Previous”


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Custom BackupStep 4 - Select folders you want to backup

- You may click the check box directly or double click the folder’s name to its sub folders. Here we check the “_NAS_Picture_” and “_NAS_twonky_...”

- Press “Next”


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Custom BackupStep 5 - Custom backup setup

- You can select functions on demand.- Press “Finish”


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Custom BackupStep 6 - Custom backup task list

-You will see the custom backup task show up on the list.


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iSCSI Backup

Step 1 - iSCSI backup

- Choose “iSCSI backup”

When the iSCSI backup task is in progress, the iSCSI Target service will be terminated.


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iSCSI BackupStep 2- Connect remote target

- Key in the IP address, Account and Password.

- Input “Target Folder” name. Please note that the letter case are consistent.

- Press “Connection Test”

- Press “Next”


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iSCSI BackupStep 3 - Choose the iSCSI volume you want to backup

- Select the iSCSI Volume



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iSCSI BackupStep 3 - Choose the iSCSI volume you want to backup

- Select the iSCSI Volume



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iSCSI BackupStep 4 - iSCSI backup setup

- Input task name

- Setup schedule

- Press “Finish” button


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iSCSI BackupStep 5 - iSCSI backup task list

- Now we can find the iSCSI backup task on the list.

*When iSCSI backup is in processing, the iSCSI LUN will disappear on the client end in 1 minute; but if you ter-minate the task iSCSI LUN will recover immediately.


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Target Folder for Remote Full Backup After you demo the three remote backup solutions, check the file directory in Windows’ file explorer.Regarding full backup, you will find that the directories are the same besides the “Recycle” folder.


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Target Folder for Remote Custom Backup Regarding custom backup, we can find custom backup task named “CustomBackup” right in the “NAS_Public” folder, and the sub folders you selected are within. On the other hand, the iSCSI backup folder named “iSCSI_Backup” is also under the NAS_Public.

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