Appendix B - Using Remote Storage
op5 LogServer and itβs underlying operating system op5 Appliance System gives you a variety of options to attach external storage.This chapter will cover two of the possibilities for remote storage: Windows fileserver and NFS.When you use remote storage, you have to create a folder and use it as a mount point by defining it in the file /etc/fstab:Normally, everthing in /etc/fstab is mounted on system startup. If you want to mount everything after editing, you can issue the command:Add a line to /etc/fstab where the first column, the device, is the Windows path for the share you want to mount, using forward slashes instead of backslashes.The second column should be a path that exists where you want to mount it. If you would like to mount it on /var/remotearchive you can create the folder by issuing the command:The third column should say cifs and the fourth, fifth and sixth should be defaults, 0 and 0 respectively.If you have a UNIX environment, it is quite common to have NFS shares published from the file server using /etc/exports and then mounted on one or several client systems.This chapter only describes NFS since it is the most common file server system, but if you are using a more advanced file server system β such as AFS or Coda β you can mount these just as on any other Linux system.Add a line to /etc/fstab where the first column is the NFS server followed by a : and the path on the file server.Let the second column be an existing path where you want the NFS share to be mounted β for this example /var/remotearchive