How to force/request vlc to buffer a video completely?

I'm watching videos on network mounts of a home server (cifs or nfs - that shouldn't matter) and experience the videos to cut during reboots during maintenance because the network mounts are not served for the time of the reboot. I'd like avoid those cuts by forcing vlc to buffer the complete video or n minutes (don't care about the memory consumption). I naively assume that vlc will continue buffering as soon as the network mount becomes available again if only n minutes are buffered.

I'm using vlc 2.2.0-0-g1349ef2 on Ubuntu 15.04.

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Open vlc, go to Tools > Preferences, from bottom left tick Show Settings > All, then in the left tree go to Input/Codecs, then on the right scroll down to Advanced and change File caching (ms). Save.

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