PLANET NAS-7410 User Manual

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Administration Page. Click the Add button to open the page below. On the page you should
provide the sync point name and specify which group is allowed to request data from this sync
point. Set the mode to “Distribute”.

On the NAS server which acts as the SmartSync client, set up a SmartSync task, which defines
the schedule settings and the target folder.

To set up a SmartSync task, please go to the BackupSmartSync Task menu on the
Administration Page. Click the Add Task button.

Follow the steps to take to add the SmartSync task.

Step 1 is to specify the IP address of the SmartSync server.

Step 2 is to choose a sync point of “Distribute” mode in the SmartSync server. Please also
provide a user account with the privilege to request data from the sync point.

Step 3 is to complete the task settings. On the page you should provide the task name, select the
target folder to receive data, specify the schedule and configure the SmartSync options.

Step 4 is for confirmation, showing the brief information of the task settings.

The SmartSync options

When setting up a SmartSync task, you will see the following SmartSync options.

Item

Description

Compress the

data stream

during data

transmission

When checked, it will compress data before transmitting to the
SmartSync server. Sometimes it will make it faster to complete a task.
However, it takes extra CPU time to compress data and may have
performance penalty if compression ratio is low.

Contain security

information

When checked, it will send ACL information to the SmartSync server.

Bandwidth

control

Limits the maximum bandwidth for the task.

Include/exclude

file pattern

For excluding or including certain file types in the synchronization. For
example, to exclude WORD files, type -*.doc; To exclude all WORD files
except those beginning with abc, type +abc*; - *.doc;

Perform quick

synchronization

Quick synchronization will only check file date, time and size when
matching files, instead of checking block-by-block. It will speed up the
synchronization a lot, while taking the risk that files might not be made
identical.

Generate

transaction logs

When checked, it will record which files are added, updated or deleted
during the data replication. The transaction logs are displayed on the
SmartSync Summary page.

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