Dell PowerVault 725N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 48)

4. Log in to a Terminal Services Advanced Client session.
5. Open Windows Explorer.
6. Select the drive on the left side.
7. Right-click the ActiveArchive directory, and then click Properties.
8. Click Security, and then click Add.
9. Click specific users or groups or type the individual users or group names to add individual users or groups, and then click OK.
10. Give the selected members Read and List Folder Contents permissions.
11. Click OK.
After setting the permissions for the ActiveArchive directory, perform the following procedure to allow the user access to a share on the directory:
1. Log in to the NAS Manager.
2. Click Shares.
3. On the Shares page, click Shares.
4. In the Tasks list on the Shared Folders page, click New.
5. Type the share name ActiveArchives and path volume_letter:\ActiveArchives, where volume_letter is the volume of the persistent images.
6. Check the Microsoft Windows (CIFS) box.
7. Click CIFS Sharing and add the users that you want to have access to persistent images.
8. Click OK.
Users can access persistent images from a Windows 2000 client by performing the following steps:
1. Right-click My Appliance, and select Map Network Drive.
2. Map to the ActiveArchives directory as a user that has permissions to the ActiveArchives share.
3. For Folder, type \\Dellxxxxxxx\ActiveArchives, where Dellxxxxxxx is the name of the NAS system.
The default system name is Dellxxxxxxx, where xxxxxxx is the system's service tag number. For example, if your service tag number is 1234567, enter
http://DELL1234567
.
4. Use Windows Explorer to navigate to the ActiveArchive directory on the newly mapped drive.
Naming Files in Microsoft Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer has a limitation of 255 characters in a filename, including the path. When you make a persistent image, the entire path and filename are
stored in addition to the Dell ActiveArchive default path and persistent image name. The default Dell ActiveArchive naming convention would result in a name
such as the following:
Drive_Letter:\ActiveArchives\Snapshot 01-01-2001 12.00.00\Path_and_Filename
The original path and filename and the Dell ActiveArchive default path might exceed the 255-character limit and become inaccessible through Windows
Explorer.
If a file becomes inaccessible because of the 255-character limit, perform the following steps to ensure that you can access long path and file names in
Windows Explorer:
1. Create a share for the desired snapshot folder. For example:
E:\ActiveArchives\Snapshot 01-01-2001 12.00.00\
2. Access that share through the desired client.
The path and filename no longer include the additional directory information, which shortens the path and filename to the original character length. You can
now access the file through Windows Explorer.
Restoring Volumes From an Existing Persistent Image
To restore a volume(s) from a persistent image, you must select the persistent image to be restored. Ensure that you select the persistent image carefully
because any activity that occurred after the persistent image was taken is lost.
NOTE: To ensure that all persistent image files do not inherit the same permissions as the ActiveArchive directory, under Permissions®
Security® Advanced, be sure the Reset permissions on all child objects and enable propagation of inheritable permissions is not checked.
NOTE: Ignore the Comment field for NFS, FTP, and HTTP shares.
NOTICE: Restoring a volume restores the volume back to its state at the time the persistent image was made. This restore destroys all data on the
volume and replaces it with the data from the persistent image.
NOTICE: A volume is dismounted during a restore. All reads and writes to a volume that occur during the restore process are denied. Therefore, you
must stop all I/O traffic to a volume while restoring it.