The Doc’s World explains his experience of using iHomeServer, a product which bridges the gap between WHS, iTunes and Home Sharing. “…if you are in the iTunes ecosystem and running a Windows Home Server, you might look into this product to see if will benefit you as much as it did me.” Its an interesting [...]
The add-in Download Home Server Status has been updated to version 3.02 Home Server Status, is a program that shows the status of your Windows Home Server 2011. It allows at a quick glance to see if your server is connected to the network, if a backup is running, was successful, or unsuccessful on any [...]
Microsoft’s TechNet Wiki has updated their article on Backing up a Macintosh time machine on SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011. Although Lion is NOT supported the article explains how Time machine backups can be made to use the Windows server as a storage target when using [...]
The Digital Media Zone has put together a guide on how to automate recorded TV backups on Windows Home Server 2011. All you need to accomplish this is separate storage drives in your WHS 2011 and Windows 7 running Windows Media Center. In the guide the guys explain how to get this setup and running, [...]
Website "The OS Quest" has an article about using a Synology DiskStation 212j as an iSCSI target from Windows Home Server 2011. “…for my purposes here it can be thought of as a way to present a network connected drive as a local drive to the operating system.” The different iSCSI target types the Synology [...]
Episode 76 of the BYOB podcast is up and this week its how to manage iTunes from your central library using iHomeserver for iTunes add-in. This plus more is in this weeks edition of the build your own box podcast, which you can find here.
CloudBerry Backup for WHS has had an update. The add-in for WHS v1, WHS 2011 and SBS 2011 users automates data backup directly to Amazon S3 and Windows Azure. Version 2.6.2 comes with few minor but important enhancements: 1. Force schedule full backup. This might be necessary for the following reasons: a. The total size [...]
Save $50 on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and get a free 2TB hard drive with your purchase too. This is a great deal as the HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3020ALA632 (0F12117) 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive is valued at $130. HP ProLiant N40L Ultra Micro Tower Server System AMD Turion [...]
Build 5635 of StableBit DrivePool has been released. This latest build of the Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users has the following changes: [D] Better support for empty pool. Treat as a disk that has 0 bytes free. Fixed Dashboard crash on missing disk. Added BitLocker support for pool parts (disabled by default [...]
Its another week so that means its time for another episode of The Home Server Show podcast. “Awesome show for you this week. Patrick Kennedy from servethehome.com joins us to talk about networking gear, hard drives, motherboards, his site, and his gear. It’s a hardware show for sure. Patrick has a lot of knowledge in [...]
