ioSafe R4 - Manual (Page 40)

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allocate enough space for worse case as the snapshot becomes unusable when its reserved space
runs out.
In our example above, we selected 50GB of the volume to be reserved for snapshots.
S p e c i f y d e s i r e d v o l u m e s i z e
After you’ve specified the above volume parameters, enter the desired volume size if you wish to
configure a smaller volume size than the maximum displayed. The resulting volume will be
approximately the size that is specified.
In our example above, we kept the maximum size that was calculated.
Click Apply and wait for the instruction to reboot the system. It typically takes about 1 minute
before you are notified to reboot.
After rebooting, you will then be notified by email when the volume has been added. Use RAIDar
to reconnect to the NAS device.
► R A I D S E T T I N G S
After you have added a volume, you can revisit the Volume tab and click on the RAID Settings tab
to display the current RAID information and configuration options for the volume.
Notice the disk on channel 4 that we did not configure is listed in the Available Disks section. We
can add this disk as a hot spare by clicking on the Make hot spare button.