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What is NFS and why do you need it?
Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed.
For example if you have 2 servers, you can setup 1 server for work and another one setup as a backup server, or just use its disk space, there are a lot of combinations.
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