Comments on: Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 In Depth: External Backup

By: wil

wil — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:46:54 +0000

Hi Jess, Did you get any reply on this or did you find any way to do it? thanks – wil

By: wil

wil — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:45:27 +0000

Is it possible to backup on many spare drives (like the WHS is 4TB and I have 4x1TB external drives, does the backp mechanism will ask me to change drives to continue its backup?)

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:13:46 +0000

Has anyone tried backing up a shared folder to multiple external hard drives (the folder won't fit on just one)?

I thought I could do this with internals and a hot swap, but it didn't work too well. When I switched to the next drive, it started backing up the same files again. If I use externals, should I keep all of them plugged in during the backup, or can I 'temporarily remove' one and have WHS still recognize that the files have already been backed up…?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Jess

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:32:39 +0000

i have the same problem, when i backup the server the backups folder itself doesn't appear. did you ever receive a recommendation on how to fix?. did you ever find a fix?

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:31:42 +0000

i have the same problem, when i backup the server the backups folder itself doesn't appear. did you ever receive a recommendation on how to fix?. did you ever received

By: Matthew Dornquast

Matthew Dornquast — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:52:34 +0000

How about backing your home server off-site?

+1 CrashPlan, here is why:

1. It’s free. You don’t have any monthly fees while protecting data off-site to another location you know or trust. You can even “seed” your backup so initial data is not sent over internet, but is direct to disk.

2. It’s not anonymous P2p – you know where your data is. While you might not care because of encryption, you do care when it comes time to restore. It’s much faster to restore over LAN than WAN. (or simply transport disk!)

3. Destinations verify data independent of source. This is superior and more trustworthy that san S3. It’s far more efficient utilizing less bandwidth and resources.

By: Michael Smithers

Michael Smithers — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:59:43 +0000

@Brian Binnerup - I have the same problem (running Power pack 2). The "Home Computer Backups" folder doesn't appear in the list of things that will be backed up when the server itself is backed up. Any ideas?

By: Brian Binnerup

Brian Binnerup — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:22:59 +0000

Terry,

There is a strikethough on “as well as backing up the Home Computer Backup database.” – and, while I can se “Home Computer Backups” in your screen there, this is not listed on my WHS at home.

What this a pre-release feature that was pulled, or what is the story?

I see the backups of the home computers as the most important part here.

Regards,

Brian

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By: charles

charles — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:26:09 +0000

I must have missed something here we all talk about how to back up the server to an external harddrive but what do we do when it is time to restore the back to another pc after we have lost the server?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:59:08 +0000

Is there a way to script the backup and schedule it using windows scheduler. I would like to automate the server backup so it kicks off once a month.

Anyway, have any ideas?

By: idg

idg — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:37:58 +0000

HOW About The WHS itself. I got it, One can back up the computers, can backup the data which is duplicated anyway, but if the home server dies (HD or any other hardware failure) I am stuck with backup and backups of backups but no sustem to use them.

So how do you back up the WHS ITSELF so that you can reconstruct it in case of hardware failure . . . .? ? ? ?
I would really like to know that…