Thread: DIY Windows Home Server Build - JukeBox MkII

I had been looking at replacing my NSLU2 for a while as the NTFS emulation leave a bit to be desired and I was going to store greatly larger amounts of data and need backups. The smallish amount of critical data is ROBOCOPYied to a NSLU2 in my garden shed via IP over mains. This is what I started out to do (From an earler UKHA_D post but included here for completeness): I went for a green ...

(Logically and time wise the VM tests and build stuff is here but lets skip that for now) After some VM testing I tried WHS on real metal - using the 120 day freebie from MS and without activating. See my previous post for details of the hardware. I've backed up XP and Vista systems so far but not tested recovery of the Vista system as it is a laptop and hard drive games are harder....

Sorry for the gap - I've fubared my WHS doing rather destructive tests for a later chapter. Just a quick addition to the item above "A few WHS Related Comments 1 - Client Recoveries" . I forgot to mention that recovering an individual file or directory on a client is easy and quick. The recovery software mounts which every version backup as a drive on your client computer and then you can ...

Sorry I haven't had a change to post the next chapters - I'm not sure how to present them. I've been doing other things with the machine - see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/message/15849 8 I should get back to WHS when the tests finish early next week. Thanks, Simon

Thanks Simon, keep us updated. M.