#WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BACKUP TO NAS MANUAL#
#WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BACKUP TO NAS WINDOWS#

In WHS 2011, if I select an external drive, I donвЂ™t get a choice to remove it temporarily, the only option shown is to remove it permanently from the server backup (see the tasks shown in figure 5). The disc is then safely dismounted from the system, and it can be returned to its offsite location. WHS V1 will ask if I want to remove the drive temporarily or permanently (see figure 4), and I select the вЂњtemporaryвЂќ option. In WHS v1, once the server backup is complete, then I simply select the external drive and click вЂњRemove driveвЂќ. In fact, even the act of removing external discs seems less clear in WHS 2011. However, the backup task still continues to run on a daily basisвЂ¦ At the time of originally writing this post, the Beta version of WHS 2011 did not have the capability to manually initiate a server backup.

#WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BACKUP TO NAS MANUAL#

I can do this with WHS V1 I canвЂ™t do this with WHS 2011: (a ) thereвЂ™s no manual server backup and (b ) the backups run on a daily schedule. I want to be able to fetch the discs from offsite, plug them in, push a button to initiate the server backups, and then return them offsite. So if IвЂ™m going to be using the external discs for making server backups to be held offsite, then allowing the backups to be made only on a scheduled basis seems to be a bit counter-intuitive to me. Doing so can improve your disaster preparedness planning by helping you recover your data if physical damage occurs to the hardware onsite. You should backup server data to multiple external hard disks and rotate the hard disks between onsite and offsite storage locations. If I were to have the external discs permanently connected to a WHS 2011 system, then, it seems to me, IвЂ™m only getting a slower version of the Shared Folder duplication that was built into WHS V1 and which was provided by the now-removed Drive Extender technology.ДЄnd MicrosoftвЂ™s own guidelines for Backup best practices for WHS 2011 state: As far as IвЂ™m concerned, they are for the purpose of making backups to be held offsite. LetвЂ™s think a moment about the nature of these backups to external discs. However, IвЂ™m less enthusiastic about the fact that server backups are always scheduled, and that they run daily (see figure 3). First the good news: itвЂ™s great that you can backup the client computer backups to external discs in addition to the shared folders (see figure 2). I find these changes a bit of a mixed blessing. Second, in WHS 2011, server backups can include both the contents of the shared folders and the backups of the client computers held on the server. First, server backups are always scheduled вЂ“ you canвЂ™t actually initiate a server backup manually with one click of a button ( NOTE: the final version of WHS 2011 does now contain a button to start a server backup manually. When it comes to WHS 2011, there are a number of changes in this area over WHS V1. ThereвЂ™s a third-party add-in to do this, but this function is not built into WHS V1 by Microsoft. Also, WHS V1 does not have the option of backing up the client computer backups from the server itself onto external discs. That means, unlike the backups of client computers attached to the server, thereвЂ™s no built-in function in WHS V1 to schedule the backups of shared folders.

This is a one-click manual process (see figure 1).

the Pictures, Videos, Music and User folders held on the server) to external discs.

WHS Version 1 can make backups of its shared folders (e.g. Today, I thought IвЂ™d take a look at how server backups are handled in WHS 2011.ДЇirst, a bit of background.

#WINDOWS HOME SERVER 2011 BACKUP TO NAS WINDOWS#

I wrote yesterday that IвЂ™d decided to kick the tyres of the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server 2011.

Windows home server 2011 backup to nas