Windows Home Server

jbloggs · 25 May 2010 at 23:02

easyrider said:
Is there anyway of automating backups of the shares to an external drive without having to do it manually?

What about Syncback Freeware which (I think) includes the ability to schedule, or RoboCopy GUI scheduled by "Scheduled Tasks"...there is also SyncToy

Qu3 · 26 May 2010 at 14:41

Synctoy would work.. but why?

You can make WHS store multiple copies of shared files in a shared folder by turning on folder duplication?

wonder_lander · 26 May 2010 at 18:55

easyrider said:
Is there anyway of automating backups of the shares to an external drive without having to do it manually?

I use CrashPlan to backup the D:\ on the WHS to another machine on the network.

Skeeter · 26 May 2010 at 20:16

Qu3 said:
Synctoy would work.. but why?

You can make WHS store multiple copies of shared files in a shared folder by turning on folder duplication?

This.

wonder_lander · 26 May 2010 at 20:44

Skeeter said:
This.

But this gives no cover if your machine catches fire / is stolen / gets submerged in water etc

easyrider · 26 May 2010 at 22:33

wonder_lander said:
But this gives no cover if your machine catches fire / is stolen / gets submerged in water etc

Exactly

cavemanoc · 27 May 2010 at 10:46

Please let me know what you choose - I want to do exactly the same thing - probably to a NAS (ideally off site, but will probably get lazy and leave it in a different room) - hmmmm... burn safe with integrated wireless aerial.... mmmmm... paranoid

HEADRAT · 27 May 2010 at 10:53

I backup my pictures to the Amazon S3 cloud using Jungle Disk

https://www.jungledisk.com/

platypus · 27 May 2010 at 15:25

Shared Folders 2.3TB
PC Backups 152GB
System 463GB
Free Space 527GB

System folder @ 450GB after rebalancing. Is there any way I can see whats in there?

PhillyDee · 27 May 2010 at 15:27

My system is at 102Gb, but the system partition is only 20Gb. I believe it is for shadow copies?

overcooled-xp · 29 May 2010 at 12:26

Hello all,

Has anyone seen this error before? I can RDP to my server, get onto all the network drives but cannot connect to the server console from any other pc in the house. It was working and now it has stopped.

Tomsk · 29 May 2010 at 16:05

overcooled-xp said:
Hello all,

Has anyone seen this error before? I can RDP to my server, get onto all the network drives but cannot connect to the server console from any other pc in the house. It was working and now it has stopped.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/tiptopcorsa/homeserver.jpg

That just happened to me.
Rebooted my PCs and server and it fixed itself.

overcooled-xp · 29 May 2010 at 17:40

It's weird, I have rebooted it several times and pc too, but still same problem. Is there any service that needs to be running for this console to work? I can use the console on the whs itself.

easyrider · 29 May 2010 at 20:33

HEADRAT said:
I backup my pictures to the Amazon S3 cloud using Jungle Disk

https://www.jungledisk.com/

There is an WHS addin for Amazon S3 that looks interesting.

However I can't work out how much it would cost me

My picture folder is 32GB and my home videos is 175 GB I would love these back up online.

http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/04/11/cloudberry-backup-for-windows-home-server/

easyrider · 31 May 2010 at 21:35

For all you WHS users please post here

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18150279

wonder_lander · 1 Jun 2010 at 21:36

Does anyone use their WHS as a DHCP server and if so how are you using it?

platypus · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:52

Dunno if it will help but there is an addin called DHCP4WHS. Not used it myself.

SiD the Turtle · 2 Jun 2010 at 12:31

Shirely being based on Windows Server 2003 you should just install the DHCP role?

hooj · 2 Jun 2010 at 13:07

SiD the Turtle said:
Shirely being based on Windows Server 2003 you should just install the DHCP role?

Yep, this is the way I do it. You don't get a Console app though, but then again how often do you need to change anything on a home network?

Qu3 · 2 Jun 2010 at 14:19

I wouldn't use the Addin I don't think its been updated for ages and was very buggy when I last used it.

Try the DHCP role in windows, should be able to use it.