
P/N:  900-10004-00 REV 02  USER GUIDE,  IOSAFE R4   
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Windows/NAS (Archive Bit)
 – select this if you wish to backup a share from a Windows 
PC.  Incremental backups use the archive bit of files, similar to Windows, to determine 
whether they should be backed up.
Website
 – select thi if you wish to back up a website or a website directory.  The backed 
up files include files in the default index file and all associated files, as well as all index file 
links to web page image files.
FTP site
 – select this if you wish to back up an FTP site or a path from that site.
NFS server
 – select this option if you wish to back up from a Linux/Unix server across 
NFS.  Mac OS X users can also use this option by setting up a NFS share from the console 
terminal.
Rsync server
 – select this if you wish to perform backups from a rsync server.  Rsync was 
originally available for Linux and other flavors of Unix, but has lately become popular 
under Windows and Mac for its efficient use of incremental file transfers.  This is the 
preferred backup method between two ioSafe R4 systems.
Once you have selected a backup source, you can enter the path from that source.  If yo u selected a 
ioSafe R4 share, you can either leave the path blank to backup the entire share, or enter a folder 
path.  Note that you should use forward slashes, ‘/’, in place of backslashes (\). 
If you selected a remote source, each remote protocol uses a slightly different notation for the path.  
If the path field is empty, selecting the remote source in the pull-down menu shows an e xample 
format of the path.   Following are some examples: 
Examples of a FTP path 
ftp://myserver/mypath/mydir 
ftp://myserver/mypath/mydir/myfile 
Examples of a Website path 
http://www.mywebsite.com 
http://192.168.0.101/mypath/mydir 
Examples of a Windows or remote NAS path 
//myserver/myshare 
//myserver/myshare/myfolder 
//192.168.0.101/myshare/myfolder 
Examples of NFS path 
myserver:/mypath 
192.168.0.101:/mypath/myfolder 
Examples of Rsync path 
myserver::mymodule/mypath 
192.168.0.101::mymodule/mypath 
Examples of local path 
myfolder 
media/Videos 
My Folder 
My Documents/My Pictures