3rd Party Linux servers and recording to a NAS?

This process is not officially supported or endorsed by Exacq. Use at your own risk.

When the exacqVision Server software starts, it will look into the following location for storage purposes:

/mnt/edvr/*

NOTE – * – This is typically a number on systems built by Exacq.

Any volume that is mounted into the /mnt/edvr location will be available for storage.

NAS Setup

Here is an example setup using FreeNAS:

1. In the BIOS Setup, set the hardware RAID (Striped with Parity).
2. Set up FreeNAS on the computer server hard drive.
3. Assign the system an IP Address.
4. Set up NFS Share using FreeNAS.

Linux NVR

1. If needed, log off as restricted user and log back in as an admin user.
2. Launch the Terminal application.
3. Create storage directoryfor your NAS location by typing:
   sudo mkdir /mnt/edvr/2
   NOTE – Ensure that there is not already a “2” directory – if so, pick a higher number
4. Edit the /etc/fstab file to include the mounting of the NAS at startup by adding line
   %servername%:%/mnt/vce-nas/% /mnt/edvr/2 nfs defaults 0 0
   NOTE: %servername% is your full server name or IP address, and %/mnt/vce-nas/% is your NAS server mount point.
5. Restart the exacqVision NVR Server to activate NAS Mount.
   sudo service edvrserver restart
6. In the exacqVision Client, use the Storage tab to enable recording to /mnt/edvr/2.
7. Verify that recordings are being stored on new mount point.