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| Thread ID: 108967 | 2010-04-19 00:58:00 | $1k budget for WHS box, hardware and software | SolMiester (139) | Press F1 |
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| 877911 | 2010-04-19 06:26:00 | ... You can if you want go into the backups on WHS and extract out any single documents etc if required (say you deleted one by mistake) .... Interesting, I like that idea. does it dump it into an image, when if required you can use their front end to explore the files inside it/ |
pkm (13527) | ||
| 877912 | 2010-04-19 07:06:00 | Interesting, I like that idea. does it dump it into an image, when if required you can use their front end to explore the files inside it/ Not as an image as such - have a read of This article (www.davescomputertips.com), esp the piece "What makes the WHS backup so special?" This is how WHS keeps the backups to a minimum. Personally it has saved my backside several times - the other week a HDD on this PC crapped its self big time. <Insert a lot of foul words> :eek: I installed a New HDD, run the backup from the previous night - fully back up and going around an hour, (almost - I was doing other stuff in the workshop as well) all programs data, apps the lot. All I lost was a couple of emails that came through after the backup. As for the recovery of a single Doc -- Open the Connector software (www.imagef1.net.nz) its on each PC thats connected to WHS - Select your PC/ Backup (www.imagef1.net.nz) click details Open (www.imagef1.net.nz) - it Opens (www.imagef1.net.nz) - then select users/ Navigate (www.imagef1.net.nz) through the folders till you get to where you want - locate the file, right click copy and paste to your normal desktop -- Done. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 877913 | 2010-04-19 07:50:00 | I could say alot about WHS but I will only say good luck! Wainuitech might remember my headaches which resulted in lots of stuff gone/corrupt. I recommend you look at linux options | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 877914 | 2010-04-19 08:39:00 | Yes Huey, I remember the problems you had. There have been quite a few updates / Fixes since then as well. The complete content of WHS gets backed up to another PC as well (when I get around to it) :lol: Not every OS goes well for everyone. Doesn't matter what it is someone is going to have problems where another person wont. Nothing wrong with Linux either acting as a WHS - as long as you know what you are doing with it, and are prepared to install apps to do various tasks that don't come pre installed. (read auto backup of PC's and complete recovery) I have a linux OS as a backup server as well, its a secondary backup of all my important work stuff thats backed up daily, just in case WHS turns turtle for some reason. Better to be safe than sorry as the saying goes. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 877915 | 2010-04-19 11:16:00 | I like rsync, very nice for remote offsite backups :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 877916 | 2010-04-19 21:40:00 | Yea I just got a 1.5TB USB HDD to backup my WHS box. I also got burnt when it was first released with data becoming corrupt but have been running it now for about 18 months and not had a problem since. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 877917 | 2010-04-20 08:48:00 | I have been running a WHS for over 1 year and it has worked very well...except, one of my Seagate 1TB SATA HDD's failed (they were new early 2009) and of course it had the WHS OS partition on it. Luckily I had a backup of the WHS on external HDD from which to restore all of the data lost and also had the WHS System discs to reinstall the OS. One thing I noticed was that even with file duplication turned on, not all of the data was on seperate drives.... I started again when I rebuilt the machine and it has worked well ever since. Seagate replaced the HDD under warrnaty - no problems. WHS work well, my only advice would be that it is critical to backup the server to cover all eventualities. |
NZMacka (11756) | ||
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