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Change the backup drive and folder
Change the backup drive and folder
- How does one change the default backup destination drive? WHS saves all computer backups to D drive, which is the internal partition drive. I would like to put it on an external drive strictly used for the computer backups. It is currently installed as drive E.
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- This is not possible. For Windows Home Server backups only disks are used, which are added via console to the storage pool. (Disks which have a drive letter, are usually not added.)
If the server has multiple disks and WHS is at least Power Pack 1, the D: drive will be the last used for storing data and backups. (Although it may look different, since all the tombstones are also located on drive D:, and in a 2 disk scenario also one set of any duplicated folder.
External drives you should not add to the storage pool, especially USB drives (or only as backup drive), since users experienced problems with such drives, depending on the intelligence of the enclosure, the quality of the USB port and the cabling. As backup drives they are dedicated to create a manual backup of the shared folders on the server, which makes sense, since the server could well be a single point of failure.
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf- Proposed As Answer bykariya21MVP, ModeratorFriday, November 06, 2009 2:57 AM
- Marked As Answer byWheeler89 Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:05 AM
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- This is not possible. For Windows Home Server backups only disks are used, which are added via console to the storage pool. (Disks which have a drive letter, are usually not added.)
If the server has multiple disks and WHS is at least Power Pack 1, the D: drive will be the last used for storing data and backups. (Although it may look different, since all the tombstones are also located on drive D:, and in a 2 disk scenario also one set of any duplicated folder.
External drives you should not add to the storage pool, especially USB drives (or only as backup drive), since users experienced problems with such drives, depending on the intelligence of the enclosure, the quality of the USB port and the cabling. As backup drives they are dedicated to create a manual backup of the shared folders on the server, which makes sense, since the server could well be a single point of failure.
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf- Proposed As Answer bykariya21MVP, ModeratorFriday, November 06, 2009 2:57 AM
- Marked As Answer byWheeler89 Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:05 AM
