Time to move on from WHS 2011

[Minstadave]

Finally fed up of WHS 2011, it's restore process is a mess, it runs slow and has an annoying 8GB RAM limit.

What would people recommend, I would like:

Automated windows backups of the household machines
Media storage and serving
Print serving
Cloud backups (ideally Onedrive)

I can use the existing hardware (Intel G3528/8GB of RAM) and have a Drivebender license or could downsize to a NAS type box.

 

[Nikumba]

Have a look at http://xpenology.me/ this is Synology NAS software that has been open sourced in effect.

I am not sure about the backups but the other bits it can do, and you can run it on your existing hardware.

Runs of a USB stick, so always work making up a stick and booting it up see if it reconises your drives/hardware etc