How to manage your Storage Server

[Yang M.]

All Storage Servers is activated with a pre-installed special OS template - "Filer (CentOS 7, Rsync, FTP, Samba) (64-bit)".

Take a note, that default folder for data storage in the Storage Server is /home/storage.

"Filer" OS template have pre-installed services and tools like:

• Rsync tool
• FTP (vsFTPd) service
• Samba (smbclient, smbd) service

1. Rsync usage

1.1. You can securely sync data between the target server and the Storage Server by using SSH keys. Instructions on how to do that:

a. Generate SSH key on the target server (not the Storage Server!):

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -q -P ""

b. Copy created SSH key to the Storage Server from the target server:

ssh-copy-id -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@storage_server_IP

c. Test the connection between the target server and the Storage Server. Execute this command from the target server:

rsync -avz -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" --progress /home storage_server_IP:/home/storage

2. FTP usage

2.1. "Filer" OS template have FTP service (vsFTPd) installed and ready to use. You can easily log in by using any popular FTP client.

Example login details:

FTP hostname: xxxx.lcwhost.net
Username: root
Password: root_user_password
Port: 21

3. SAMBA usage

3.1. Login to the Storage Server SAMBA from another Linux systems:

smbclient //xxxx.lcwhost.net/storage -U root

3.2. In order to connect (mount) Storage Server and Windows systems (to use it as attached storage) use this guide:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4026635/windows-map-a-network-drive

(In "Folder" put your server hostname. For example:: \\xxxx.lcwhost.net\Storage)

3.3. In order to connect (mount) Storage Server and MAC OS systems (to use it as attached storage) use this guide:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204445

(In "Server Address" enter your server hostname. For example: smb://xxxx.lcwhost.net\Storage)

Note: Storage Server is designed for archiving non-critical data (e.g. backups), therefore additional backups are not being done. The customer is responsible for data recovery (e.g. from secondary storage) in the event of unlikely RAID6 failure (when 3 or more hard drives fail at the same time).