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Backup feature surprisingly removed from Windows Home Server refresh | |
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| Time: 14:18 EST/19:18 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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Testers of a forthcoming service pack for Windows Home Server were the first to discover that a feature they'd come to rely upon had been removed from the product -- as it turns out, intentionally. One of Windows Home Server's key features is the ability to perform manual or automatic backups of the entire contents of hard drives of PCs in a home network -- a consumer-centric version of the same backup engine used in Windows Server 2003 and 2008. WHS stores the backups from each of those drives in a special database; and for safety, many users have found it convenient enough to manually back up the backup database, sometimes onto separate drives in case of a server crash. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at 5/17/2008 8:14:14 PM |
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I'm pretty pissed about this one...
TL |
| #2 By 2201 (78.32.103.51) at 5/18/2008 4:23:22 AM |
| What exactly are you "pissed" about? Reading it several times, it seems only the ability to automatically back up the server backup database is not coming (i.e. held back to a future update), you can still back up folder contents and you can still manually back up the server backup database. It hasn't been "removed" or "cut" (as it wasn't in there in the first place), simply delayed for an indefinite amount of time. Just back it up manually. No real news here really. |
| #3 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 5/18/2008 7:16:38 AM |
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in the article, the author(s) intentionally lead off the story by mentioning full system backup (which is WHS's default, btw...).
By doing so they are intentionally creating confusion and inferring that the main reason to use WHS has been removed - when as you have rightly explained, they are only referring to the WHS BU DB and the ability to automate a BU of it - which in TL's case is no necessary, since he has his WHS SYS in a traditional RAID to begin with. Any case.... it is a terrible article as based upon a read of the comments, it has many people convinced of some things that just are not so... and frankly, it looks like the entire article was written by any idiot who has never really touched a WHS. To be fair, WHS users do have good reasons to be pissed... the file corruption bug, lack of x64 bit client support, and the nasty propensity for WHS to drop drives when folder replication/mirroring is turned on, are my top three filed bugs/complaints. FP1/SP1 is supposed to address all of these and so far it looks like they will. BS / Junk articles are not helping people and the endless and mindless linking to them without any context is making matters worse. |
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