Netgear RD521210 – ReadyDATA 5200 12TB SATA Bundle includes RD5200 with 2 x RD5D6LT01 Disk Packs Software Guide

Clone a snapshot of a LUN.

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independent LUN.

Assign the LUN clone to a LUN group that the users can access.

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The LUN clone appears on the iSCSI-attached device as a virtual block device, The 
iSCSI-attached device treats LUNs in the LUN group as locally attached disks. Now users 
can access the LUN clone from the iSCSI-attached device.

Locate the snapshot data on the LUN clone from the iSCSI-attached device.

Users can access data on the LUN clone according to their access rights. Users who 
have read/write access to the LUNs in the LUN group can explore the snapshot data in 
the LUN clone and recover any desired data.

ReadyDATA snapshots for shares are accessible directly from Windows Server 2008 and 
Windows Server 2012 when SMB is used to connect the server to the ReadyDATA. You can 
view and select snapshots from the Previous Versions tab of a file’s Properties dialog. Note 
that there are some differences between using the ReadyDATA snapshots and a local 
Windows Server snapshot, such as: a Windows Restore does not delete the later snapshots 
on the ReadyDATA, access is over the network so performance might be slower than 
expected, a user with write permission can modify the actual snapshot.

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