6 disks 4x1TB and 2x2TB. How best to sync them for backup.

RimBlock said:
Yep you are probably right. The extra 8GB arrived from the US yesterday and it made a bit of a difference in the responsiveness of the server but not as much as I would have liked.

Getting three media players to connect at the same time is a pain as I am guessing you can only login from a single account using a single ip address at any one time. Created three separate accounts and now it is a case of remembering the account names and passwords and trying to put them in using a screen keyboard using a tiny remote.

Anyway, 15 days trial remaining and so at the weekend I will try going back and installing WHS2011.

Thanks for the help and suggestions everyone.

RB
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what are you using as clients? If windows based you could use autologon from sysinternals

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963905

Beware WHS lost one of its arguably best features when it went to 2011. Drive extender was on 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server#Drive_Extender

There are products that do similar things available on whs2011 but not out the box. This may or may not be important for you but just in case you hadn't read about it.
 
malman said:
what are you using as clients? If windows based you could use autologon from sysinternals

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963905

Beware WHS lost one of its arguably best features when it went to 2011. Drive extender was on 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server#Drive_Extender

There are products that do similar things available on whs2011 but not out the box. This may or may not be important for you but just in case you hadn't read about it.
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My WD Live TV boxes are trying to login using a single account from multiple rooms at the same time. The account 'Share' is fine for the first unit but then the second unit in another room cannot login at the same time afterwards using the same user account. I have since setup three share accounts (one for each media player) and that seems to be working fine. I have just created a profile template for them all to be based on and would probably created a specific group as well if I really wanted to do it correctly.

Yeah I heard about drive extender but am a bit weary about JBOD type extentions as they usually result in a 'loose one and loose it all' type effect. I also understand that WHS2011 uses mirroring for redundancy which cuts my storage space by half rather than just syncing the more expensive raid array disks to the cheaper archive green disks. As long as I can manage arrays with WHS2011 and I can find something to sync the arrays it should be fine. I will have to check out the robocopy and see if it works for WHS as well as SBS. I do like the addons for power management and wake on lan which would allow my NAS to power down when not in use and wake when 'called' from the media player. This would be great for home use when no torrents are running and I am out at work.

Just need to register and download the trial DVD, rebuild the server. Does Win7 Pro work fine with WHS and can you manage user accounts on it or do they have to all be only local machine accounts ?

Thanks
RB
 
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