SYS and OVH servers both come with FTP backup space.
All SYS servers have 100GB FTP backup quota. All OVH 2014 servers have 500GB backup storage quota. Those with pre-2014 servers currently have 100GB FTP backup quota will be upgraded to 500GB in the near future.
The FTP backup space enables you to back up the data on your server, this space is particular useful when you need to reinstall the server and need to preserve data. The FTP backup quota is only accessible within the server. This means it is only usable when your inside the server and making an FTP connection to the FTP backup space.
With the new FTP backup protocols such as NFS/CIFS it enable you to mount your backup space locally on your server. The direct advantage is being able to manipulate your files as if they were on a local disk and thus to use all admin tools easily to carry out your backup.
In addition to the new protocols, you can increase the default 500GB backup storage up to 1TB, 5TB and 10TB.
You can find out more information about OVH backup storage here.
You can use the following command to mount the FTP as a network drive under windows.
Windows
net use x: \\ftpback-*****-***.ovh.net\ns123456.ovh.netLinux
sudo apt-get install nfs-client
mount -t nfs ftpback-****-***.ovh.net:export/ftpbackup/ns123456.ovh.net /mnt
For new types of servers, they have a different naming convention:
mount -t nfs ftpback-****-***.ovh.net:export/ftpbackup/ns123456.ip-1-2-3.eu /mntVMware
~ # esxcli storage filesystem list
Mount Point Volume Name UUID Mounted Type Size Free
------------------------------------------------- ----------- ----------------------------------- ------- ------ ------------- -------------
/vmfs/volumes/59c7b162-a00aab38-2542-7054d218bc24 datastore1 59c7b162-a00aab38-2542-7054d218bc24 true VMFS-5 1995012308992 1993984704512
/vmfs/volumes/59c7b163-5969ca0a-3fb0-7054d218bc24 59c7b163-5969ca0a-3fb0-7054d218bc24 true vfat 4293591040 4291624960
/vmfs/volumes/2caef776-d7f19d1b-2312-00d69b297366 2caef776-d7f19d1b-2312-00d69b297366 true vfat 261853184 126451712
/vmfs/volumes/820ea873-0d0d146f-13e1-90b2fc9e6eb8 820ea873-0d0d146f-13e1-90b2fc9e6eb8 true vfat 261853184 261844992
/vmfs/volumes/59c7b15b-d6ef07fa-e318-7054d218bc24 59c7b15b-d6ef07fa-e318-7054d218bc24 true vfat 299712512 103448576
Here we can see that only the datastore is listed but not the 500GB backup space, we need it mount it with:
esxcli storage nfs add -H ftpback-****-***.ovh.net -s /export/ftpbackup/ns123456.ovh.net -v [name of storage]
This will enable the storage to appear as part of the file system.
Mount Point Volume Name UUID Mounted Type Size Free
------------------------------------------------- ----------- ----------------------------------- ------- ------ ------------- -------------
/vmfs/volumes/6b4e2cad-b925a093 500GB_Space 6b4e2cad-b925a093 true NFS 536870912000 529608867840
/vmfs/volumes/59c7b162-a00aab38-2542-7054d218bc24 datastore1 59c7b162-a00aab38-2542-7054d218bc24 true VMFS-5 1995012308992 1993984704512
/vmfs/volumes/59c7b163-5969ca0a-3fb0-7054d218bc24 59c7b163-5969ca0a-3fb0-7054d218bc24 true vfat 4293591040 4291559424
/vmfs/volumes/2caef776-d7f19d1b-2312-00d69b297366 2caef776-d7f19d1b-2312-00d69b297366 true vfat 261853184 126451712
/vmfs/volumes/820ea873-0d0d146f-13e1-90b2fc9e6eb8 820ea873-0d0d146f-13e1-90b2fc9e6eb8 true vfat 261853184 261844992
/vmfs/volumes/59c7b15b-d6ef07fa-e318-7054d218bc24 59c7b15b-d6ef07fa-e318-7054d218bc24 true vfat 299712512 103448576
This is also in relation to the NAS for the command at: NAS
