Information covered

• Purpose
• Description
• Create a NAS share on the IDrive BMR device
• Backup a NAS share to the IDrive BMR device
• Configure a NAS share

Purpose

Learn to host, backup, and configure NAS shares on the IDrive BMR device.

Description

Create NAS shares within the IDrive BMR storage and collaborate over file-based sharing protocols. While SFTP for ssh-based file sharing is enabled by default, you can also share across SMB for Windows, NFS for Unix-like operating systems, and AFP for Mac.

Create a NAS share on the IDrive BMR device

To create a NAS share on the IDrive BMR device,

1. Sign in to the IDrive BMR device interface.
2. Navigate to the NAS Share page and click the Create a new share button.
   
   
   
   The Create Share wizard will be displayed.
3. In the Share Type tab, select NAS Share and click Next.
4. In the Share Settings tab, assign a name to your network share.
   
   
   
   
5. Select Apply New settings to configure the settings of your share. Alternatively, select Use the configurations of an existing share and choose an existing share from the dropdown to replicate its configurations.
6. Click Next.
7. In the Local Snapshot tab, set the snapshot frequency using the dropdown against Capture a local snapshot every _.
   
   
   
   
8. Select the days for local backup as Daily, Weekdays, Weekend, or select Custom and choose the days.
9. Set the start and end time for backup.
   

   Note: Here, the Start Time and End Time is a soft cut-off. The actual start time and end time are dependent on the tasks that are in progress.

10. In the Snapshot Retention Settings section, use the slider to set the limit for retaining local snapshots. You can retain up to 100 local snapshots of a network share.
11. In the Confirm Share tab, review the local snapshot and cloud replication summary, and click Create.
12. The created share is displayed on the BMR NAS page.

Backup a NAS share to the IDrive BMR device

To schedule local snapshots of a NAS share,

1. Sign in to the IDrive BMR device interface.
2. Navigate to the NAS Share page. All the network shares are displayed here.
3. Click Configure Share Settings corresponding to the required network share.
4. In the Configure Local Snapshot section, set the frequency for capturing the local snapshots and schedule the backup.
5. Click Save.

You can also choose to pause the local backup of a network share by moving the slide toggle in the respective section to read Disabled.

Configure a NAS share

To configure a NAS share,

1. Sign in to the IDrive BMR device interface.
2. Navigate to the NAS Share page. All the network shares are displayed here.
3. Click Configure Share Settings corresponding to the required NAS share. This opens the Configure Share screen.
   
   
   
   
4. In the Manage Share Access tab, set the access permission as public or private. In the case of private access, assign users to the share in the Manage Share Users section below.
   
   
   
   
5. In the Share Protocols section, select the network protocols that will be used for accessing the shares.
   
   
   
   

   Note: SMB protocol access is configured by default. Enable write access for all users, if required.

6. In the Configure Local Snapshot tab, set the frequency for capturing the local snapshots and schedule the backups as Daily, Weekdays, Weekend, or select Custom and choose the days.
   
   
   
   
7. Set the start and end time for backup.
   

   Note: Here, the Start Time and End Time is a soft cut-off. The actual start time is dependent on the backup pipeline and the actual end time is dependent on the ongoing tasks that are in progress.

8. In the Snapshot Retention Settings section, use the slider to set the limit for retaining local snapshots. You can retain up to 100 local snapshots of a NAS share.
9. Click Save to save the local snapshot settings.