Buffalo Tech TeraStation 5000, User Manual

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Configuring Failover
1
In Settings, click Backup .
2
Open Failover .
3
Click Edit Failover Status .
4
Select a TeraStation to be the target backup device.
Note: The target TeraStation’s hostname, IP address, and LAN port number will be shown. The LAN port selected
here will be used to check the main TeraStation for continued operation.
5
Enter the administrator password of the target backup device, then click Continue .
6
If the administrator password is correct, the backup TeraStation will beep.
7
To accept the settings from the main TeraStation, hold down the function button on the front of the backup
TeraStation until it stops beeping.
Notes:
• If replication is configured for more than one folder, initialize the TeraStation before configuring failover.
• The main TeraStation cannot be used as the backup location for Time Machine.
• If email notification is enabled and failover occurs, navigate to
Management - Email Notification - Edit in the main
TeraStation’s settings and click OK .
• Ethernet frame size settings for main and failover TeraStations should be 1518 bytes. To change the Ethernet
frame size, navigate to Network - IP Address , click the LAN port and Edit , and change the Ethernet frame size to
“1518” bytes.
• Files whose filenames contain more than 80 alphanumeric characters will not be backed up.
• If a “Replication I33 ReplicateFailure” error appears on the LCD display, navigate to
Backup - Replication and click
Sync .
• Don’t use the same TeraStation for both failover and replication, or failover and Time Machine.
• If the “Approve/Deny” window is displayed repeatedly or failover does not start, shut down both the main and
backup TeraStations. Turn on the main TeraStation first and let it boot up. Then power up the backup TeraStation.
Reconfigure failover.