Manage NAS Shares

Add NAS Shares

To add the NAS shares to Vinchin Backup & Recovery for backup, please go to Resources > NAS Shares page. Click on the Add button to add a NAS share.

The supported NAS protocols are CIFS and NFS, please select the target protocol of the NAS share which you are going to add.

In the IP Address field, input the IP of the NAS server, then in the Share Path field input the correct share path.

As for the Permissions, it’s recommended to select Read & Write permissions in order to enable Vinchin backup server being able to perform NAS backup and restore, otherwise if Read only, Vinchin backup server will only be able to do NAS backup but not restore.

In the Version dropdown list, select the CIFS/NFS protocol version, if no option available, please click on manually input one to provide a protocol version manually.

In the Name field, users can define a customized name for the NAS share for identification.

If adding a CIFS share, user credentials should be provided in the Username and Password fields.

For the Mount to Node option, users can select one or several backup nodes (if any), the NAS share will be mounted to the selected nodes and users can then run NAS backups on multiple nodes.

In the Advanced Settings section, users can configure customized mount parameters for both CIFS and NFS shares, and additionally the customized port number for NFS share if needed.

License NAS Shares

Once a NAS share had been added, its status is Unlicensed, users have to license it with Vinchin NAS backup license module to enable backup of the NAS share.

Click on the License button to show the License NAS Share dialog.

Select the NAS shares you’ve added and then click on License button to get the NAS shares licensed for backup.