Comments on: The Home Server Show – 2

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:26:10 +0000

@Thieves and Pirates (or Igor, or whatever your name is)

I’ll say it once again, because so far this has been a perfect way of quieting your mindless bashing:

Name one Linux solution that will keep my Windows machines 100% backed up by performing incremental nightly backups completely automatically, and then be able to completely restore a crashed Windows client to exactly it’s previous state over the network, automatically. It needs to save space by keeping only one copy of duplicate files across multiple clients, and it needs to bring Windows computers out of standby to perform the nightly backups. Please don’t waste our time with some Linux solution that supports 15 different file transfer protocols but can’t perform a full backup of a Windows computer.

So far you’ve completely failed at this challenge, despite continually trying to convince people that Linux can do everything WHS can do.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:49:41 +0000

@Glen, didn’t Grey Lancaster also say, that because of the instability of the WHS Drive Extender code (KB 946676) issue is why the database backup tool couldn’t be completed? And that there hasn’t been much progress made if at all on the issue at hand.

It would be nice to clear this up and have Microsoft provide some statement as to what is being officially done to resolve their proven data corruption design defect in WHS, since it’s already been many months now that anything has been reported here…

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:49:58 +0000

“Power Pack 1 will not provide a tool to back up your backup database,” said Ken Warren. Microsoft announced Power Pack 1 for WHS in January advertising what it called “Windows Home Server Data Backup”.

Joel Sider, senior product manager for WHS, confirmed that the serverwide backup had been pulled. It’s official…

The server backup functionality won’t include the PC backup database — a separate data store on Home Server that keeps all the data from the PCs that home server is backing up every night.