Your NFS share

An NFS share is network storage set aside for you on a NAS at OVH. Your servers mount it like a folder: the files are shared between them and kept off your machines.

The Your share card is on the service's page, in Your services.

What the card shows

• the space used against the share's size, with the date it was last read and the part taken by snapshots;
• the Mount point: the address to give your servers, with its copy button;
• the Allowed addresses: your servers that can mount the share, each with read and write or read only. The addresses of our own servers, which back the share up, are not listed;
• the Snapshots: how often the share is photographed (every day, for example), to go back to an earlier state.

Mounting the share on a Linux server

From a server whose address is allowed:

sudo apt install nfs-common
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/share
sudo mount -t nfs <Mount point> /mnt/share

Replace <Mount point> with the card's value. To mount it at every start, add a line to /etc/fstab:

<Mount point>  /mnt/share  nfs  defaults,_netdev  0  0

Good to know

• A server whose address is not in the list cannot mount the share: mount answers "access denied".
• To allow a new server, enlarge the share or change its snapshots, click Ask support about it on the service's page and give the address or the size you want.
• Snapshots count in the space used. When the bar nears the size, ask support to enlarge the share before it is full: writing to a full share fails.
• The space used is read again about every hour.