Jay R. Wren - lazy dawg evarlast » backups http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog babblings of a computer loving fool Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:08:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows Home Server backup database http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/01/02/windows-home-server-backup-database/ http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/01/02/windows-home-server-backup-database/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:16:20 +0000 jrwren http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/01/02/windows-home-server-backup-database/ Continue reading →]]> I’m seriously thinking I should change my backup strategy. I use Windows Home Server for one thing and one thing only, Backups. Sure the file share stuff is nice, but I already have a Linux server with samba with my file shares. WHS lovers will say I should migrate, but all I see that gaining me a day or so of copying files and no real benefit.

I recently got a new laptop and when adding this into the mix I had to add more storage to my WHS. I did, and after doing so I got this:

HomeServer-AllBackupsLost

What good is a backup system if it loses your backups? Not much good IMO.

Windows 7’s backup is very good now and I think I may benefit from just using it rather than WHS. I’ll duke it out with WHS one last time, but I won’t be recommending it to Mom, Dad or Grandma anytime soon.

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