Home Server or Win 7 Pro?

[liamcrane]

Evening all

Just a real quick fire question, is there any benefit from running WHS on a micro server over a standard Win 7 Pro install? Im using the Microserver just as a file server and to stream out to laptops etc but i just cant decide on the OS. I want to install things like the Air Video server and itunes (unless there is a better way to stream music) It's just i have heard with WHS being a server OS its a little more difficult to install these kind of applications. I use Macrium Reflect to create images of all my machines and i planned on just keeping the images stored on the server so there would be know real need to take advantage of the backup service tat the WHS provides. Im hoping that i can then restore an image with the Macrium Win PE rescue disk straight from the server

What do you think?

Thanks a mill

 

[unleashed]

To me the main advantages of WHS are "automatic" backup of client PCs and remote web access of my shares. There is 5 machines in our household and sometimes work away for a couple of weeks or so and Knowing that all machines are backed up automatically is peace of mind.

 

[bignev72]

You can setup automatic backups quite easily in Win 7 tbh. Just use Robocopy and task scheduler.

Not very pretty but it works

 

[paradigm]

You can setup automatic backups quite easily in Win 7 tbh. Just use Robocopy and task scheduler.

Not very pretty but it works

Or just set up the inbuilt windows backup to save to a network location.