bdwderm wrote on Monday, October 11, 2010:
Any thoughts or experience storing data in a NAS device?
Brent
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tmccormi wrote on Monday, October 11, 2010:
As long as it’s mappable to a physical path on the server then you can just link the storage locate over to it. In Unix/Linix it looks like this
  create a mount point for the drive
  configure the drive for NFS and give the server permissions to mount it
  edit the /etc/fstab (or use a GUI tool) to automount the NAS
  use a symbolic link from the (v4) openemr/site/default/documents -> /mnt/nas-server-mount-point
There are ways to do this in windows using drive shares as well. but they are hard to describe.
-Tony
penguin8r wrote on Tuesday, October 19, 2010:
As Tony said, storing data & documents on the network is not a problem.
Storing the actual MySQL database for OpenEMR elsewhere is probably not a good idea unless you’re 100% sure of what you’re doing.
jhenry328 wrote on Wednesday, October 20, 2010:
Would it be a good choice to use the tools in linux/cron to do a dump of the database then encrypt the files and then store to nas or offsite backup?
sunsetsystems wrote on Wednesday, October 20, 2010:
Would it be a good choice to use the tools in linux/cron to do a dump of the database then encrypt the files and then store to nas or offsite backup?
Sure. Offsite is better for obvious reasons. I use an offsite backup server that initiates the connection for each backup session… that way if your openemr server is hacked into, there is not enough information in there to find and destroy the backup.
jcahn2 wrote on Thursday, October 21, 2010:
That’s a good point Rod. I have been pushing data to my backup as jhenry328 describes when I really should be pulling to the offsite.Â
Jack
anonymous wrote on Thursday, October 21, 2010:
Hello,
A NAS device is a storage container for data. It’s essentially a server because there is almost always a lightweight, embedded Operating System (usually Linux), and it’s networkable—usually via an Ethernet port, although some are now featuring wireless connectivity—so it can store data for all the computers on your network. The etorage space can be comprised of USB or hard disk drives. The NAS market is competitive. There’s a vast array of NAS devices to choose from.
Thanks.