using external storage

[GTnK]

how can i setup resourcespace use an external storage like NAS or
server with ftp,webdav, etc to store media (photo,video,mp3)?
I was planning on installing ResourceSpace on my server that conected
to openfiler/maxtor NAS using webdav/iscsi.

[Dan Huby]

So long as you can mount the NAS on to your filesystem you're fine.

What I've set up myself is the following:

1) Mount the external drive / NAS samba share / whatever to somewhere
on your filesystem, e.g. /mnt/nasdrive and make sure your system does
this on startup.

2) Create a folder in your new mount folder called 'filestore' (or
move the existing filestore folder from ResourceSpace if you already
have resources)

3) Remove ResourceSpace's own 'filestore' folder

4) Create a symbolic link to the 'filestore' folder on your mounted
folder from the ResourceSpace folder.

To ResourceSpace, nothing has changed, it is still putting files in
the local 'filestore' folder, however they are being stored remotely
on your NAS server.

The above is for a UNIX system but if you're running Windows you can
probably do something similar using NTFS junction points, although I
haven't tried this myself.

Hope this helps.

Dan

[GTnK]

Thank's for quick reply,
I think this will help a lot. Thank you! Your very generous.

[mdb]

Also looking into this as well.

Found this on the windows side of things...would this be helpful? Its
for group policy so I am not sure if this works. But posting a snippet
here

Managing Documents with Folder Redirection

Folder redirection is a component of IntelliMirror that allows
administrators to redirect the path of the following folders to a new
location: My Documents (and its subfolders My Pictures, My Music, and
My Videos), Application Data, Desktop, and Start Menu. These folders
are located by default in each user's profile on the local computer.
The most commonly redirected folders are those that contain large
amounts of user data-My Documents and its subfolders. Although it is
not a recommended practice to store large amounts of data on the
Desktop, users in some organizations do, and the Desktop folder can be
redirected as well.

The new location can be another folder on the local computer or a
directory on a network share. Users work with documents on a server as
though the documents were stored on the local drive.

There are benefits to redirecting any folder, but redirecting the My
Documents folder can be particularly advantageous:

* No matter which computer on the network the user logs on to, the
user's documents are always available.
* You can use Group Policy to set disk quotas and limit the amount
of space taken up by users' folders.
* You can back up data stored on a shared network server as part
of routine system administration. This is safer and requires no action
on the part of the user.
* User data can be redirected to a hard disk on the user's local
computer other than the disk where the operating system files are
located. This protects the user's data if the operating system must be
reinstalled.

[mdb]

Ah found something better, at least for Win 2003.

This might work, I am going to give it a try. There is a tool someone
made that might do what we need (at least on NTFS)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx

Introduction
Windows 2000 and higher supports directory symbolic links, where a
directory serves as a symbolic link to another directory on the
computer. For example, if the directory D:\SYMLINK specified C:\WINNT
\SYSTEM32 as its target, then an application accessing D:\SYMLINK
\DRIVERS would in reality be accessing C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS.
Directory symbolic links are known as NTFS junctions in Windows.
Unfortunately, Windows comes with no tools for creating junctions -
you have to purchase the Win2K Resource Kit, which comes with the
linkd program for creating junctions. I therefore decided to write my
own junction-creating tool: Junction. Junction not only allows you to
create NTFS junctions, it allows you to see if files or directories
are actually reparse points. Reparse points are the mechanism on which
NTFS junctions are based, and they are used by Windows' Remote Storage
Service (RSS), as well as volume mount points.

[mdb]

Aw, Fishpaste!

I am beginning to suspect that I can not create junction points to a
network location with Windows.

I found a little tool called Junction Link Magic that makes creating
junction points a snap. For a test I created C:\test and C:\target,
linked the two with this tool and it works.

Then I tried c:\test R:\target (R being a mapped drive to a network
location and I am getting an error telling me that I could not create
a link.

Any one else out there have any ideas for external storage?

[Dan Huby]

Does it let you create a link directly to a UNC path rather than a
mapped drive?

E.g. link c:\test to \\myserver\someshare\somefolder

Dan

[mdb]

Yeah I tried that too and no luck.

I am working with our IT person. We are going to try to hook the
server directly to the SAN via fiber and see if we can mount the SAN
drive. Maybe that will work. But wow, I dont think that many people
would be able to do that.

Interestingly, Windows Vista has junction points now part of the OS.

[Dan Huby]

It does seem a pretty basic thing, to be able to mount remote
filesystems on to a local one. I can't believe recent versions of
Windows don't support it.

Here's an article that might be interesting:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6346_11-5388706.html

and possibly this one too:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524

[mdb]

Started reading that article from TechRepublic and stopped when I saw
this:

It's important to keep in mind that NTFS junction points are designed
to work only on local hard disks. They don't work across a network. In
other words, you can't create a junction point on an NTFS drive that
points to a network drive.

[mdb]

My IT person is going to try the following. Hook the RS server to the
SAN system we have, mount one of the SAN shares to the RS server, and
should in essence fool the RS server into thinking that SAN share is a
local drive. IT feels pretty good that should do the trick and then
from then do the junction point across to the "local" drive.

Let you know how it goes.

[Kyosho Dc]

Hi Dan - I know it's an old post, but I'm trying to do the same thing myself on an Ubuntu 18.04 server with a Synology NAS.

1) I have the persistent mounted drive at /mnt/MRO_Archive

2) You refer to something call a new mount folder in which I am supposed to store  a new 'filestore' folder. Are you referring to the folder on my Ubuntu Server named: /mnt/MRO_Archive? Inside that folder is the ~~~ folder that leads to the storage folders. I'm a little nervous about modifying that. But if you confirmed this method, that's good enough for me. So I am to place a folder named 'filestore' next to the ~~~ folder? Or do I add a layer so that 'filestore' contains ~~~?

3) Is clear

4) The link file named filestore should then be placed in the ResourceSpace directory (mine is named like my website, www.zmmarchive.com).

Thanks for any help you can provide,

Frank Fallon

[Nick Young]

Clearly this thread is old... 

This method doesn't seem to work any more. However, I am also a noob compared with everyone here! Any tips on my install on a raspberry pi 4 with 4gb ram (32GB for OS) and a 240GB ssd usb where I would like to store the files. I have tried symlinks and bind links, it hasn't worked... however I am not confident that I have done things correctly (hobbyiest). Any thoughts?

FYI, I do Admin a instance of RS for Collin College.

Nick

[Kyosho Dc]

Hi - Which OS and Web Server are you using? I got it to work, but it took a while.

If you have Ubuntu/Linux Mint, I could look at my install code and let you know how I have got it to go.

Take care,

Franki

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[Charlie Alonso]

I do sym links all the time for filestore, you need mount the external storage as NFS or SMB storage and create a summoning in /var/www/rs/filestore

That’s all

Charlie Alonso

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