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

[Sharjeel Saleem]

i am getting following error while mounting NAS through nfs,

nfs mount: get_fh: BUFFALO:: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out
nfs mount: get_fh: BUFFALO:: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out
nfs mount: retry: retrying(1) for: /test after 5 seconds
nfs mount: retry: giving up on: /test

kindly suggest resolution

Sharjeel

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

does a 'ping BUFFALO' work?

V.

[Sharjeel Saleem]

Yes ican ping NAS(BUFFALO). i have added host entry at Unix machine.

Sharjeel

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

NFS with :

rpcinfo SERVER

showmount -e SERVER

mikap

[Sharjeel Saleem]

for both commands with returend with the same error type. some RPC errors.

-SS

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

ok that seems to be a problem with the firewall or network restriction.

mikap

[Sharjeel Saleem]

Hi,

we can access the NAS over the network from WINTEL machine, only having problem with unix.

-SS

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

the question is if the wintel and unix machines are on the same network, and have the same network restriction ?


mikap

[Sharjeel Saleem]

yes on same network and policies.

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

him

never see that before, do you have some firewall settings on the HP-UX ??

mikap

[V. Nyga]

Well - first question should be:
Does this buffalo support NFS?
Is NFS configured?

V.

[Mel Burslan]

Volkmar beat me to the question. I believe the el-cheapo Bufalo Terastation class NAS devices are not actually NAS but more a winodooze shares, i.e., can only be accessed via CIFS client from the HPUX environment. Don't be fooled by the label saying "NAS". It is not a full implementation. And at the price range of $250 for a terabyte, what do you expect ? :)

[Alzhy]

The Buffalo NAS Terrastaion runs a micro-Linux distro and should support NFS too. http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/terastation-duo/

Sharjeel -- I suggest you erad the manual and look at how to manage the NAS for NFS connections sir.