Exactly. Ovirt will monitor storage only if it knows about it.<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622898497079">I would use autofs or systemd's '.mount' + '.automount' unit files to automatically mount and umount the NFS.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622898554406"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622898554613">In worst case scenario, you will have only several stale NFS mount points (if using the hard option) and those most of the time can be recovered without reboot.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622898605443"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622898606202">Best Regards,</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622898616626">Strahil Nikolov<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1622898449449"><br clear="none">If I'm understanding you correctly, it sounds like you're suggesting that I just connect 1 (or multiple) hosts to the NFS mount manually, and don't use the oVirt manager to build the backup domain. Then just run this script on a cron or something - is that correct?</div> </blockquote></div>