Fortinet FortiRecorder 7.0.0 Administration Manual page 76

To safeguard your surveillance video in the event that your FortiRecorder appliance is destroyed by fire, flood, intrusion,
or other event that it is recording, configure your FortiRecorder appliance to store its video at a remote location, such as
a branch office or cloud storage provider on the Internet.
Tested and supported NFS servers
Linux NAS
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FreeNAS
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Openfiler
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EMC VNXe3150 (version 2.4.2.21519(MR4 SP2))
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EMC Isilon S200 (OneFS 7.1.0.3)
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Windows Server 2016
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Untested NFS servers
Buffalo TeraStation
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Cisco Linksys NAS server
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Windows Server 2003 R2 and 2008
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To configure external storage
1. Go to System > Storage > External Storage .
2. Enable external storage.
3. Expand the Device section.
4. Configure the following settings:
Setting Name
Protocol
Maximum size
Username
Password
Hostname/IP Address
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Best practice is to connect cameras and other services (GUI, CLI, external file storage, etc.)
on different network interfaces so that video streams have dedicated bandwidth. Live video
streams may be lower quality or have choppy motion if cameras do not have constantly
available bandwidth.
Description
Select one of the following types of storage media:
External USB : External USB device.
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iSCSI Server : An iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface)
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server.
NFS : A network file system (NFS) server.
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Specify the maximum video file size that is allowed to be stored on the
external storage device.
You can view the remote storage usage information on
The user name of the FortiRecorder unit's account on the iSCSI server.
This option only appears if
The password of the FortiRecorder unit's account on the iSCSI server.
This option only appears if
Type either the IP address or fully-qualified domain name (such as
nas.example.com) of the iSCSI or NFS server.
This option only appears if
iSCSI Server is the selected protocol.
iSCSI Server is the selected protocol.
iSCSI Server or NFS is the selected protocol.
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