# Can we use MinIO with NFS for snapshot/restore repo +50TB?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-minio-with-nfs-for-snapshot-restore-repo-50tb/315426>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\
**Tags:** docker, snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [September 29, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-minio-with-nfs-for-snapshot-restore-repo-50tb/315426 "2022-09-29T06:13:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![markn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markn/32/74417_2.png) [@markn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markn)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-minio-with-nfs-for-snapshot-restore-repo-50tb/315426/1 "2022-09-29T06:13:16Z")

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Hi all,

we cannot backup outside our data center. Hence we want to use MinIO according to the documentation:

> **[Snapshotting to Minio on-premise storage | Elastic Cloud Enterprise Reference...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-enterprise/current/ece-configuring-minio.html)**

Only our cheapest storage is NFSv3 but MinIO recommends not to use that:  
[https://min.io/docs/minio/container/operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-minio-single-node-single-drive.html#id2](https://min.io/docs/minio/container/operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-minio-single-node-single-drive.html#id2)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/c/cc98618dec20a229fb6c07fb288b86d448f9e5c7.png)

What is your view on this? Do you have customers running MinIO in production with large (\>50TB) datasets on NFSv3? Would this be really an issue for us?

Second question: the containers to run MinIO in, would that be on the ECE platform? Meaning we would use the underlying Docker? Or should we run it on separate VM's?

Thanks.

Cheers,  
Mark

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**Author:** ![Jugsofbeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@Jugsofbeer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jugsofbeer)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-minio-with-nfs-for-snapshot-restore-repo-50tb/315426/2 "2022-09-29T06:32:30Z")

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You would run minio in a docker container, outside of ECE... on any server which has docker ability and underlying large storage.

I avoided NFS because i didnt want network storage or brittleness.

I had no issues with minio and 40TB when i used it two years ago using underlying LVM... where the storage was being provided through vmware etc and was easily expanded as necessary.

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**Author:** ![markn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markn/32/74417_2.png) [@markn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markn)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-minio-with-nfs-for-snapshot-restore-repo-50tb/315426/3 "2022-09-29T07:03:09Z")

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Thanks! If we go for MinIO we would indeed place it outside of ECE.

For NFS, any others have experience with MinIO storing on NFS (v3) with large volumes (+50TB)?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-minio-with-nfs-for-snapshot-restore-repo-50tb/315426/4 "2022-10-13T07:04:04Z")

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