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Link Local Windows HDD to Debian VPS
Is it possible to link a local Windows hard disk to a VPS? I've installed Plex media server on my VPS but it only has a 30gb drive and online storage is expensive. I was thinking of linking my home server to my VPS so that the VPS can do the transcoding of media (the home server is too low end to process the files) and the VPS can point to my home server HDD for all the media. I have fibre optic broadband so have pretty good upload and download speeds.
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What type of VPS is it?
Sound interesting looking forward for any kind of input.
OpenVZ
You might be able to, but you'd first have to make your hard drive accessible from the VPS, which probably sounds like you yourself will host a server with the hard drive in it, forward some ports and then the VPS will be able to access it. Then it comes down to linking it...
You need windows SFTP server and sshfs on your VPS.
http://www.howtoforge.com/mounting-remote-directories-with-sshfs-on-ubuntu-11.10
It can work, but you cannot do it over the smb.
In the future for full access to the kernel and mounting stuff, get a Xen or KVM vm.
Openvz is great regarding speed and hosting, but sucks if you need access to the kernel for some things.