Remote Server Mount

Files.com's Remote Server Mount feature gives you the ability connect a specific folder on Files.com to a Remote Server in a real time manner.

The Remote Server can be a third party cloud, another Files.com account, an on-premise server running the Files.com On-Premise Agent, or any server accessible via FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 protocol or anything else.

That folder then becomes a client, or window, accessing the files stored in your remote server or cloud in real time.

Remote Server Mount is also a way to leverage Files.com's apps, API, and workflows without using our storage services.

Once you configure a Mount, any operation you perform on or inside that folder will act directly on the remote in real time. Whether you are dropping a file into that folder, deleting a file, creating a subfolder, or performing any other file/folder operations your Files.com user has permissions for, those operations will "pass through" to the remote in real time.

This powerful feature enables a wide variety of use cases such as, accessing files on a counterparty (client or vendor)'s cloud without provisioning individual access to individual users, reducing storage costs by leveraging on-premise or bulk storage solutions, enabling applications to access 3rd party clouds via Files.com API, FTP, SFTP, or Files.com Apps and many more.

The remote server types can be found in the list of Cloud Storage and Content Sharing Integrations.

Checksums or hashes are not available for files stored on a remote server mount. Calculating these values would require transferring the entire file from the remote server to Files.com servers first, incurring potentially large data transfer costs for our customers. If your business processes require checksums to validate file integrity, you can configure a Remote Server Sync instead.