Saving directly to WHS

dark_hag666

dark_hag666

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Is it now safe to save directly to a Windows Home Server, given that Power Pack 1 has come out and the corruption bug is fixed?

I have my server all set up, but I'm currently keeping it all copied on my PC still; which is obviously quite a waste.
 
I've not had any problems from the beginning it was only a list of certain apps interacting with data that could cause the bug anyway. I'm saving straight to WHS and FWIW its been superb and i've not heard (nor been looking for though) any problems since PP1 :)
 
dark_hag666 said:
Excellent, I shall be ditching all but one drive in my PC and moving the data over to my WHS box shortly :)

Thanks
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Im just waiting for the server case to turn up, then I will be doing the same. I will be duplicating a lot of the data, but the aim is to have almost everything saved on the server, running WHS. :)
 
Does anyone map (possibly with Junction if possible) their My Docs folder to their users' folder on WHS; and would it confuse windows to much when the server is down but the PC is on?
 
By that if you mean Active Directory then no.

I will be reinstalling Windows soon, so if no one knows for sure I will report results here.

The idea is that if I could set my XP's My docs folder to a my docs folder inside the server, I could have just one drive in my PC with was PURELY with the OS and programs. No data slowing things down, no data that needs robocopying over to the server and then being backed up again by the auto-backup function.
 
Thats what I do. Had WHS from the RTM release. The corruption bug was using certain programs under certain conditions. Never affected me. I am using a thermaltake case with 9 drive bays, which currently have a 5-in 3 and a 3-in2 IcyDock bays. So it looks good anyway!
 
I have just remembered that there isn't a recycle bin on WHS. Hence if I accidentally deleted anything...bye bye data without a time consuming recovery process.
 
:(

Just out of interest what did you use to map you My Docs folder to the share. I've used Tweak UI to map it to a different drive before, but I have a program that didn't like it much. Recently a friend told me about Microsoft's Junction, which seems to do the same thing but at a lower level.
 
I've recently backed up all my data to amazon S3, whilst i know WHS is a lot more stable i still don't trust it completely, especially since i've managed to corrupt the OS twice (accidently knocked out the PSU cable both times - seems to result in an endless reboot cycle).
 
No backup solution is "perfect", on offsite backup to something like S3 (which I use for all my photos) is a very sensible idea.

The only data I'm really worried about is my PST backup, my photos and my music, all of which I backup to multiple devices.

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