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Is the WHS backup component available separately?

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  • Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:20 PM
     
     
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    I can see the WHS backup component being incredibly useful in a corporate setting. No messing around with reinstalling all a user's individual applications and utilities - even if available pre-packaged - would be a wonderful timesaver. And the way WHS backup operates, you could store a few thousand machines very economically. Is it available separately?
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    • Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:56 AM
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      No. It's only available as part of Windows Home Server. However, Windows Home Server is being deployed into small businesses by quite a few consultants, exactly because the backup tool is so useful. And inexpensive; consider that the per seat cost of of WHS as a backup tool is ridiculously low, on the order of $50-75.
      I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)