Thrid party NAS mount on UNIX

[Sharjeel Saleem]

Hi,
We have third party NAS named Buffalo Terastation, we have connected the NAS device directly to the network. now we need to mount the volume groupp from NAS to UNIX machine for storing our weekly backups. kindly suggest the best practice.

Sharjeel

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

the NAS could be conected via

SMB/CIFS, NFS, or iSCSi ( if its supported ).

mikap

[Nido]

Sharjeel,

>>>>now we need to mount the volume groupp from NAS to UNIX machine for storing our weekly backups.
Quickest would be to temporary NFS mount the File-System for one-time job.

else again NFS would be a better choice, check docs.hp.com for Automount/Mount NFS options for details.

Let us know if you need some more inputs.

Cheers!!

[avizen9]

Hello Sharjeel,
i will prefer nfs for this,

[Sharjeel Saleem]

Thx Team,

please suggest, what would i mention in the below fstab entry against server entity? as we are using NAS here.

server:remote_directory local_directory nfs defaults 0 0

Sharjeel

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

i would use AutoFS/Automounter instead of hard NFS mount.


mikap

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

server:remote_directory local_directory nfs defaults 0 0

this is ok, but you need to be sure that the storage will be any time available.

mikap

[Sharjeel Saleem]

hi mikap,

yes the fstab entry is right but the question is what will we write against server entity in this line because we are using simple NAS with no hostname.

Sharjeel

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

ok :)

you could make entry in /etc/hosts

IP server server_alias1 server_alias2

and them your syntax is ok.

mikap

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

but before you add it to the fstab,

try to mount the remote NAS via nfs manually.

mikap